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The Star Shiner poses the question: Can a young man from a small rural Kentucky town--fleeing a domineering mother and an abusive, alcoholic fat...

Though cinema arrived in Spain and Portugal at the end of the nineteenth century, national and industrial problems as well as the dictatorships of ...

In Paris Calligrammes the filmmaker, photographer and collector of worlds Ulrike Ottinger links historical archival material with her own art and f...

A figure from ancient folklore, the doppelganger--in fiction a character's sinister look-alike--continues to appear in literature, television an...

The 1950s and 1960s at The Walt Disney Studios marked unprecedented stylistic directions brought on by the mid-century modern and graphic sensibili...

This collection of new essays covers the myriad portrayals of the figure of the pirate in historical records, literary narratives, films, televi...

We are now confronted with a new type of uncanny experience, an uncanny evoked by parallel processing, aggregate data, and cloud-computing. The dig...

An exciting and visually focused tour of the diverse range of films shot on location in London, World Film Locations: London presents contributions...

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...

This title takes an immanent turn in art history. Immanence is a theory of divine presence, in which the divine is found in the material world, not...

Be they musicals or melodramas, war movies or animation, Russian films have a long and fascinating history of addressing the major social and polit...

My uncle, Isidore Ostrer, created and ran Gaumont British, the largest UK movie company in the 1930s, employing 16,000 people. Part one is a person...

This examination of the history of vampires within the science fiction realm also analyses the role of science and pseudo-science from the 18th cen...

People hunting people for sport--an idea both shocking and fascinating. In 1924 Richard Connell published a short story that introduced this con...

Kisses Sweeter Than Wine is a brutally honest and completely absorbing literary memoir from a man who has emerged as one of Wales's major cultural ...

Pre-World War II Hollywood musicals weren't only about Astaire and Rogers, Mickey and Judy, Busby Berkeley, Bing Crosby, or Shirley Temple. The ear...

Henry Mancini's Peter Gunn theme. Lalo Schifrin's Mission: Impossible theme. Isaac Hayes' theme from Shaft. These iconic melodies have remained ...

Rethinking the Hollywood Teen Movie is the first academic monograph to consider the aesthetic and narrative potential of this highly popular, yet o...

How does a culture respond when the limits of childhood become uncertain? The emergence of pre-adolescence in the 1980s, which is signified by t...

Comprehensive and definitive volume telling the complete story of how Aliens was made, featuring new interviews with some of the cast and productio...