Entertainment

From Warner Bros. Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Tomb Raider follows the treacherous journey of a young Lara Croft as she takes her fir...

Its no secret that authors have a love-hate relationship with Hollywood. The oft-repeated cliché that the book was better than the movie holds true...

Elaborate cinematic universes and sophisticated marketing tie-ins are commonplace in entertainment today. It's easy to forget that the transmedi...

Film and television Westerns are most often associated with physical bravery. However, many--especially those produced during the Golden Age of ...

Explores the transformations of sound in modern literary and cinematic forms from the 1890s to the mid-20th centuryThis volume brings together a ra...

In 1973 Sophie Neville was cast as Titty alongside Virginia McKenna, Ronald Fraser and Suzanna Hamilton in the film Swallows & Amazons. Made be...

The political films that have emerged on the global film festival circuit since the 1990s mark a shift in cinematic strategies for critically addre...

Created as a companion volume to a major history of colour in British Cinema (also by Sarah Street), British Colour Cinema is a book based on a ser...

Focusing on early cinema''''s relationship with the pictorial arts, this pioneering study explores how cinema''''s emergence was grounded in theori...

Sue Thornham''''s study explores issues in feminist filmmaking through an examination of a wide range of films by women filmmakers, ranging from th...

From the Renaissance on, a new concept of the frame becomes crucial to a range of artistic media, which in turn are organized around and fascinated...

The Los Angeles area feels almost alive with movie history. It is impossible to walk down any neighborhood block that didn't play host to movie ...

From their heyday in the 1950s and 1960s, B movies declined in popularity through the 1970s. As the big Hollywood studios began to make genre fi...

One of the most original shows in the history of television, Mystery Science Theater 3000 is a beloved cult hit built on the back of another cult p...

Digital technology has transformed cinemas production, distribution, and consumption patterns and pushed contemporary cinema toward increasingly gl...

Surfers loathed them, teenagers flocked to them, critics dismissed them, producers banked on them--surf and beach movies. For a short time in th...

Civilization seems to move ever more toward the power of words over weapons. But many people, especially Americans, still believe wrongs in life...

Japanese film is enduringly fascinating, challenging and rewarding. This book provides a cultural, historical and philosophical study of Japanese f...

In examining the careers of communist and liberal actors, screenwriters, playwrights, and directors in Hollywood from the late 1920s to the pres...

I talked with a zombie--it DOES seem like an odd thing to say! But for more than 25 years, Tom Weaver has been chatting up zombies and many othe...

The XXX Filmography, 1968-1988 features more than 3,000 A to Z entries, covering the historic, artistic, and technical aspects of adult cinema f...

This book calls for a re-evaluation of the films of Robert Rossen. Over a 30-year period, he was the most accomplished writer and director who w...

Horror cinema flourishes in times of ideological crisis and national trauma - the Great Depression, the Cold War, the Vietnam era, post-9/11; this ...

King Baggot began in films in 1909, was a major star from 1910 to 1916, and gained renown as a director in the 1920s and as a character actor in...

After its publication in 1986, Stephen King's novel It sparked sequels, remakes, parodies and solidified an entire genre: clown horror. Decades ...

Joss Whedon's works, across all media including television, film, musicals, and comic books, are known for their commitment to gender and sexual eq...

Circuses and film are a natural pairing, and the new essays making up this volume begin the exploration of how these two forms of entertainment ...

Beat generation writers dismantled mainstream America. They wrote under the influence of psychedelic drugs; they crossed and navigated multicult...

Over the decades, Richard Mathesons 1954 novel I Am Legend has spawned a series of iconic horror and science-fiction films, including The Last Man ...