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Critics have traditionally characterized classic horror by its use of shadow and suggestion. Yet the graphic nature of early 1930s films only ca...

Censorship has been an ongoing issue from the early days of filmmaking. One hundred years of film censorship, encompassing the entire 20th centu...

Every year, hundreds of American film schools graduate thousands of aspiring filmmakers. Very few of them, however, leave school prepared for th...

From 1880 to 1920, the first truly national visual culture developed in the United States as a result of the completion of the Pacific Railroad....

Ronald Reagan, a former actor and one of America's most popular presidents, married not one but two Hollywood actresses. This book is three biograp...

The twelve classic comedy films examined within these pages are distinguished by an equal number of defining comic performances. Ranging from The G...

The star of some of the most beloved films of Hollywood's golden age--including Bullitt, The Great Escape, and The Magnificent Seven--Steve McQuee...

Hardback volume showcasing the diverse work of one of Star Trek's most talented alumni, Dan Curry, whose contributions to the TV shows and movies i...

Mythology for centuries has served as humanity's window into understanding its distant past. In our modern world, storytelling creates its own m...

Explore the legacy of Alfred Hitchcocks leading ladiestheir iconic roles, unforgettable costumes, and complicated relationships with the man behind...

Film studies has been a part of higher education curricula in the United States almost since the development of the medium. Although the study of f...

A chronological listing of the creative output and other antics of the members of the British comedy group Monty Python, both as a group and indivi...

Packed with previously unseen photographs, and complete with a Foreword by Steven Spielberg, Jaws: Memories from Martha''s Vineyard is one of the...

Richard Hayward was one of Irelands best-loved cultural figures of the mid-twentieth century. A popular Irish travel writer, actor and singer, he l...

''This important new volume reconstructs the forms of production, distribution and exhibition of films made in and about the colonies. It then ties...

From movie buffs and film students to anyone who enjoys true-crime stories or is interested in U.S. politics, this companion to a critically acclai...

Blondie, Boston Blackie, Ellery Queen, The Lone Wolf, Gasoline Alley, Jungle Jim... There were 27 film series produced and released by Columbia Pic...

Largely neglected by Hollywood in the early 1990s, the youth market began receiving increased attention from American media industries by the en...

The veterans' culture in postwar eras from World War I to the present is examined in this book, with specific attention to the historic events of e...