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Martial arts have appeared in American movies since the days of Mr. Moto and Charlie Chan, but English-language martial arts films as a genre di...

Ray Harryhausen's animated creatures sparkled with predatory alertness and subtle quirks of behavior that stamped each with a distinct and memorabl...

Though best known for its horror films, Hammer produced a wide variety of movies in many genres. The British studio was famous for its exciting ...

Arnold made some of the most enduring science fiction films of the 1950s--It Came from Outer Space, Creature from the Black Lagoon, and The Incredi...

Illustrating the multifaceted art of screenwriting, this guide expertly navigates its vital aspectsdramatic structure, the creation of character, a...

For fifty years, the newsreel was a fixture in American movie theaters. Released twice a week, less than ten minutes long, each had news footage...

A complete guide to all phases of documentary production, this is an essential handbook for student filmmakers and professional documentarians a...

This collection of interviews, all conducted by the author, focuses on the children of Hollywood legends. Each child (and, in one case, grandchi...

Having entered the world in 1896 as a poverty-stricken child named Naftaly (Nathan) Birnbaum, George Burns rose from New York's Lower East Side ...

Throughout the 1930s, 40s and 50s, several independent film production companies (referred to a poverty row studios) turned out hundreds of B movie...

This reference work provides production company-written plot synopses or, when a synopsis was not available, trade paper reviews of 476 films ab...

Pity the extras. Mostly overlooked and forgotten. Especially those in the major Hollywood films 1913 to 1945--right through the dream factory's ...

Film history is merged with psychiatric history seamlessly, to show how and why bad depictions of mind doctors (especially hypnotists) occur in ...

With his rugged features and earthy sex appeal, Victor Mature ushered in a new breed of postwar Hollywood actor, far removed from the debonair m...

   Much has been written (and rewritten) about classic horror and science fiction films like Nosferatu and Metropolis, as well as not-so-classic pi...

In 1975, after his two Godfather epics, Francis Ford Coppola went to the Philippines to film Apocalypse Now. He scrapped much of the original scrip...

Over the past century, the western has fluctuated in popularity. By 2010 it has come to stand, to the dismay of many, at one of its lowest point...

The films of the New French Extremity have been reviled by critics but adored by fans and filmmakers. Known for graphically brutal depictions of se...

A number of thrillers made in the 1920s and 1930s have become available again thanks to new technology. There are a few, however, that remain el...

Proposing a fresh theoretical approach to the study of cinematic portrayals of the Middle Ages, this book uses both semiotics and historiography...

From his earliest shorts to his recent feature lms The Departed and Shutter Island, this book offers an in-depth analysis of the deepest archety...

This critical survey examines the historical and thematic relationships between two of the cinema's most popular genres: horror and film noir. T...

A surge of immigration in the United States in the 1920s coincided with burgeoning developments in entertainment--including cinema. Movie houses...

From the French and Indian War to the Civil War, well over a hundred years of American history is reflected through the lives of six bold and fa...

L. Frank Baum's novel, The Wizard of Oz, has spawned 39 official sequels, over 100 unofficial sequels, well nearly 40 films, several TV series, mus...

Actress and sex symbol Brigitte Bardot had a stunning career in France and America in the mid-20th century. Since the 1970s, she has dedicated h...

The author invites readers to spend time in the pleasure of Harpo's cinematic company while comparing him to tricksters from folklore, myth and ...

Named Television's First Lady by Walter Ames of the Los Angeles Times, actress Beverly Garland (1926-2008) is also regarded as a Western and sci...

While many fans remember The Lone Ranger, Ace Drummond and others, fewer focus on the facts that serials had their roots in silent film and that...

Ridiculous' is a relative term, what is nonsense for one can be an important guideline for another. It is not about laying down the law. For each o...

Nearly 130 years after the introduction of Sherlock Holmes to readers, the Great Detective's identity is being questioned, deconstructed, and recon...

For many years, movie audiences have carried on a love affair with the American West, believing Westerns are escapist entertainment of the best ...

American films, like America itself, have long been fascinated by the threat of outsiders posing as citizens to destroy the American way of life...

From atomic bombs to zealous zombies, this cinephile s guidebook reviews 1000 of the wickedest, weirdest and most terrifying films from every age o...

Though intimacy has been a wide concern in the humanities, it has received little critical attention in film studies. This collection of new ess...