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Acclaimed actor and rap artist Will Smith has achieved a level of Hollywood fame rarely attained by a Black celebrity. Early in his career, Smith s...

Dance and film have shared a dynamic relationship since the advent of cinema--a natural interplay that developed into the genre known as screend...

Frank Sinatra is an iconic figure in music, but his film career is often overlooked. His innate talent as an actor is proven in many serious dramat...

Over the course of several decades, scientific fact has overtaken science fiction as humankind's understanding of the universe has expanded. Mirror...

The ground has shifted from the days in which serious history and boring went hand in glove. Textbooks and lectures have their place, but less t...

In 1968, George Romero's film Night of the Living Dead premiered, launching a growing preoccupation with zombies within mass and literary fictio...

Charlie Chaplin's A Woman of Paris (1923) was a groundbreaking film which was neither a simple recycling of Peggy Hopkins Joyce's story, nor qu...

This book uses a black/white interracial lens to examine the lives and careers of eight prominent American-born actresses from the silent age th...

NBC's Grimm is an understudied series full of compelling characters, including Monroe, the charmingly knowledgeable vegetarian who looks like a ...

Faith horror refers to a significant outcropping of mid-1960s and 1970s films and adaptative novels that depict non-Christian communities of evil d...

The image of the nurse is ubiquitous, both in life and in popular media. One of the earliest instances of nursing and media intersecting is the ...

A Guide to New Mexico Film Locations offers a call sheet to explore many of the Land of Enchantment's most iconic film locales, such as those from ...

For the major broadcast networks, the heyday of made-for-TV movies was 20th Century programming like The ABC Movie of the Week and NBC Sunday Ni...

This book begins at the intersection of Dracula and War of the Worlds, both published in 1897 London, and describes the settings of Transylvania...

This book examines American screen culture and its power to create and sustain values. Looking specifically at the ways in which nostalgia color...

Stephen King's fiction has formed the basis of more motion picture adaptations than any other living author. Over half a century since his earliest...

Since the Punisher's first appearance in the pages of Spider-Man #129, the character has become one of the most popular and controversial figures i...

The horror and psychological denial of our mortality, along with the corruptibility of our flesh, are persistent themes in drama. Body horror fi...

In 1990s post-Reform China, a growing number of people armed with video cameras poured out upon the Chinese landscape to both observe and contribut...

Widespread law enforcement or formal policing outside of cities appeared in the early 20th century around the same time the early film industry was...

What comes to mind when you think about superheroes? Strength, bravery, and heroism are common answers. However, superheroes do not only have ph...

In recent years, there has been a rise in diverse racial representation on television. In particular, Black characters have become more actualized ...

This collection examines the peculiarly modern phenomenon of voyeurism as it is experienced through the digital screen. Violence, voyeurism, and...