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The American crime film has recently enjoyed a surge in popularity and proliferation, making it the most pervasive genre in contemporary cinema....

At the heart of one of the most successful transmedia franchises of all time, Star Trek, lies an initially unsuccessful 1960s television production...

Elvis Presley musicals, beach romps, biker flicks, and alienated youth movies were some of the most popular types of drive-in films during the sixt...

Speculation abounds about the relationship between Frank Lloyd Wright and Ayn Rand. Was he the inspiration for Howard Roark, architect hero of R...

More than 400 films and 150 television series have featured time travel--stories of rewriting history, lovers separated by centuries, journeys t...

Over the last decade, audiences worldwide have become familiar with highly acclaimed films from the Romanian New Wave such as 4 Months, 3 Weeks and...

Over the last decade, audiences worldwide have become familiar with highly acclaimed films from the Romanian New Wave such as 4 Months, 3 Weeks and...

Henry Mancini's Peter Gunn theme. Lalo Schifrin's Mission: Impossible theme. John Barry's arrangement of the James Bond theme. These iconic melo...

The special issue responds to two concurrent phenomena: the re-emergence in the 21st century of religion as a political and cultural force, and its...

Star Trek: The Next Generation blended speculative science fiction and space opera in its portrayal of communication. Multiple modes of communic...

Explores hieroglyphs as a metaphor for the relationship between new media and writing in British modernismIn the British Museum, one object attract...

From the 1950s through the 1970s, disaster films were among the most popular on any genre. Audiences loved the thrill and spectacle of these movies...

Focuses on the aural elements which combine with moving images.The New Soundtrack is fully peer-reviewed and includes contributions from recognised...

This collection reveals the journey to be a persistent presence across cinema and in cultural modernity. Draws on examples from different regions a...

This is a comprehensive and highly practical screenwriting manual. An eagerly anticipated successor to the authors internationally acclaimed book S...

Sir Christopher Lee (1922-2015) was one of the most beloved actors of the past sixty years. He appeared in more than 200 feature films--from Ham...

The study of amateur filmmaking and media history is a rapidly-growing specialist field, and this ground-breaking book is the first to address the ...

I wish I could have had this book when I was starting out in the business. An invaluable reference work. -Alan Poul, producer, WestworldThe legal...

Screening Statues: Sculpture and Cinema is the first book to focus on the relationship between sculpture and the silver screen. It covers a broad r...

In the period 1916-1966, during its so-called Golden Age, Hollywood developed a passion for the ancient world and produced many epic movie blockbus...

In 2016, Star Trek--arguably the most popular science fiction franchise of all time--turned 50. During that time the original series and its var...

This book examines a cycle of postfeminist films that adopt the conventions of romance. In light of their tremendous gains in the political and pro...

This book showcases stunningly realistic and wonderfully posed models and dioramas depicting various characters and scenes from science fiction and...

Beginning with Charlie Chaplin's Shoulder Arms, released in America near the end of World War I, the military comedy film has been one of Hollywood...

This work examines a film distribution system paralleling the rise of early features and persisting until 1972, when Man of La Mancha was the fi...

Ben-Hur was the first literary blockbuster to generate multiple and hugely profitable adaptations, highlighted by the 1959 film that won a record-s...

Pearl White, William Duncan, William Desmond, Ben Wilson, Walter Miller, Francis Ford, Charles Hutchinson, Jack Dougherty, and Eddie Polo are ju...

This collection considers film in the aftermath of September 11, 2001. Eleven essayists address Hollywood movies, indie film, and post-cinematic...

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

This work analyzes popular films produced in the years of significant historical change from 1946 to the end of the twentieth century. Although the...

Luchino Visconti's trilogy of films Ludwig, Death in Venice and The Damned explore the complex relationship between the themes and ideals of Ger...