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At a time when debates about social inequality are in the spotlight, it is worth examining how the two most popular media of the 20th and 21st cent...

The narrative surrounding the Titanic's voyage, collision, and sinking in April 1912 seems tailor-made for film. With clear categories of gender...

Continuing the exploration which began in Actresses of a Certain Character: Forty Familiar Hollywood Faces from the Thirties to the Fifties (McF...

Ealing Revisited provides a major reappraisal of one of British cinema''s best-loved institutions, Ealing Studios. During its heyday, Ealing prod...

Although he is most remembered for his vast collection of science fiction memorabilia; his influential magazine, Famous Monsters of Filmland; and h...

It is a comparative analysis of Maghrebi-French and North African emigre cinema in France. From militant cinema in the 1970s, through beur and banl...

How real is the external world? How valid are our memories? Could we ever go back in time? Are there parallel universes out there? What happens whe...

What did our Scottish grandparents and great grandparents see at the cinema? What thrilled them on the silver screen? This is the first scholarly w...

This title describes a new critical tradition in American filmmaking. American Smart Cinema examines a contemporary type of US filmmaking that exis...

This book places Taiwanese cinema from the 1980s onwards in both national and transnational contexts. In the Taiwanese film industry, the dichotomy...

The findings of this book are drawn from a conference held in 2013 in Kaunas, Lithuania, titled Music and Technologies 2 , which provided a contin...

Profiling World War II veterans who became famous Hollywood personalities, this book presents biographical chapters on celebrities like Audie Mu...

The media vampire has roots throughout the world, far beyond the shores of the usual Dracula-inspired Anglo-American archetypes. Depending on text ...

In an era of reboots, restarts and retreads, J.J. Abrams' Star Trek trilogy--featuring new, prequel adventures of Kirk, Spock and the rest of th...

In 1933, Margaret Sullavan made her film debut and was an overnight sensation. For the next three decades, she enchanted audiences and critics i...

As baby boomers gray, cinematic depictions of aging and the aged are on the rise. In the horror genre, fears of growing old take on fantastic pr...

In this jam-packed jamboree of conversations, more than 60 movie veterans describe their experiences on the sets of some of the world's most bel...

Peplum or sword-and-sandal films--an Italian genre of the late 1950s through the 1960s--featured ancient Greek, Roman and Biblical stories with ...

Mars has long served as a blank canvas for illustrating society's aspirations and anxieties--a science fiction setting for exploring our future ...

Prior to the collapse of communism, Romanian historical movies were political, encouraging nationalistic feelings and devotion to the state. Vla...

Roy Rogers' golden palomino, Trigger, was the perhaps the most famous horse in film--more popular than the man himself among certain fans. In it...

Clear all moorings, one-half impulse power and set course for a mare incognitum... A popular culture artifact of the New Frontier/Space Race ...

In his remarkable 50-year career, D-Day veteran, international film publicist and executive and production associate Charles Jerry Juroe met, kn...

During the 1960s, many models, Playboy centerfolds, beauty queens, and Las Vegas showgirls went on to become decorative actresses appearing scan...

British author and essayist George Orwell shot to fame with two iconic novels:the anti-Stalinist satire Animal Farm and the dystopian masterpiec...

Vampire narratives are generally thought of as adult or young adult fare, yet there is a long history of their appearance in books, film and ot...

Tony Scott was a thrill seeker who lived and loved life to the fullest... He was also one of the more cutting edge filmmakers of an entire generati...

Henry Neil Soapy Castles grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina, and became involved in its pioneering auto racing scene at an early age. Graduati...

Harry Potter, A Fish Called Wanda, Inspector Morse, Downton Abbey and X Men are just a few of the films that have become synonymous with the world ...

Mexican cinema has largely been overlooked by international film scholars because of a lack of English-language information and the fact that Sp...