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The Trouble with Love in the Movies is a painfully honest account of labouring in the fields of film production, of loving and losing, living and l...

Beginning with early Arab American playwright, poet and novelist Kahlil Gibran and concluding with contemporary playwright Yussef El Guindi, thi...

For more than a century the Western film has proven to be an enduring genre. At the dawn of the 20th century, in the same years that The Great T...

Most often remembered for her graceful hand gestures, expressive eyes, and body language on the silent screen, ZaSu Pitts was much more than a run-...

This comprehensive bibliography covers writings about vampires and related creatures from the 19th century to the present. More than 6,000 entri...

Africa and Beyond: Arts and Sustainable Development is a massive undertaking by thoughtful theorists and practitioners in the creative/cultural ind...

This volume will be of interest to everyone seeking to understand the relationship between war as an historical narrative and its representation in...

The apocalypse on the big screen has expanded beyond the familiar end-of-the-world movies. Romantic comedies, teen adventures and even children'...

Humorous yet spiritually rigorous in the tradition of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and The Taoof Pooh, drawing from pop culture and fr...

* 2018 marks the 60th anniversary of the start of the Carry On series. * The first book to examine each of the 31 films in detail. * Also covers ...

It's a cinematic image as familiar as John Wayne's face: a wagon train circling as a defensive maneuver against Indian attacks. This book examin...

A Star Is Born -- the classic Hollywood tale about a young talent rising to superstardom, and the downfall of her mentor/lover along the way -- has...

This book is a thorough quantitative and qualitative study of a typical phenomenon pertaining to the English spoken language; namely question tags ...

The 1980s was the decade when the action film as it's now known came into being. Nonstop, big-budget excitement became the standard as epic adve...

The first edition of John Woo: The Films (McFarland, 1999) was the earliest English-language volume to address the motion picture output of the ...

NOMINATED FOR OSCAR, BAFTA AND GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS (BRYAN CRANSTON, BEST ACTOR)Dalton Trumbo was the central figure of the infamous 'Hollywood Ten,...

Femme fatale Pola Negri (1897-1987) was one of the great stars of the silent film era, an actress whose personal story of hardships and successe...

For more than 80 years, images of the Third Reich have appeared in newsreels, documentaries, and fictional stories--from comedies and musicals t...