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Over the 50 incredible years of Star Trek TV shows and movies, the franchise has produced many stand-out villains. Collected here are features on s...

The headline of the Variety extra on October 27, 1926, proclaimed Vitaphone1 Thrills L.A.! Vitaphone, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. formed in ass...

This multi-authored survey offers an innovative and accessible account of the richness and diversity of French film history from the 1890s to the 2...

So, the film or television lesbian character dies. It seems to happen frequently. But does it really? If so, is it something new? Surveying the ...

The most intriguing stories from the history of cinema are the tales of what might have been, those seemingly insignificant incidents that would ha...

In 1945 U.S. Navy photographer Nick Scutti found himself in the Florida Keys on the set of the classic World War II drama They Were Expendable, ...

The film Ghostbusters was released in June 1984 and became a cultural phenomenon and an instant classic, reaching No. twenty-eight in the American ...

In these two volumes of original essays, scholars from around the world address the history of British colonial cinema stretching from the emergenc...

In recent years digital technology has made available an inconceivably vast archive of old media. Images of the past--accessed with the touch of...

Better Left Unsaid is in the unseemly position of defending censorship from the central allegations that are traditionally leveled against it. Taki...

Depictions of Asian American men as effeminate or asexual pervade popular movies. Hollywood has made clear that Asian American men lack the qualiti...

Even as actresses become increasingly marginalized by Hollywood, French cinema is witnessing an explosion of female talenta Golden Age unlike anyth...

An oversized, lavishly illustrated storybook featuring original watercolor art by legendary filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki!This is the original Princess ...

Following the success of Capturing Archetypes, this deluxe second volume showcases a fresh slate of Sideshow Collectibles figures and statues. Feat...

Roger Ebert has been writing film reviews for The Chicago Sun-Times for over four decades now, and his biweekly essays on great movies have been fe...

Radical Mainstream examines independent film and video cultures in Britain from the mid-1970s to the late 1980s in the context of struggles against...

During Mexico's silent (1896-1930) and early sound (1931-52) periods, cinema saw the development of five significant genres: the prostitute melodra...

It makes us jump. It makes us scream. It haunts our nightmares. So why do we watch horror? Why do we play it? What could possibly be appealing abou...

From 1933 until America's entry into World War II in 1941, nearly 500 Nazi films were shown in American theaters, accounting for nearly half of ...

An in-depth study of the presence and representation of Jews in contemporary Argentine film, focusing on films shot since the year 2000. Runner-up...

In the 1982's groundbreaking science-fiction film Blade Runner, the world saw a vision of the future so bold and breathtaking that it still remains...

The cultural impact of J.K. Rowlings Harry Potter series transformed a generation of young people into readers and fans, who were able to interact ...