Films, Cinema

Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor were a Sixties supercharged couple in an era of supercharged couples. As a pairing they were fantasy figures, i...

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

Dolores del Río's enormously successful career in Hollywood, in Mexico, and internationally illuminates issues of race, ethnicity, and gender throu...

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

The Anatomy of Harpo Marx is a luxuriant, detailed play-by-play account of Harpo Marx's physical movements as captured on screen. Wayne Koestenbaum...

Brian Donlevy (1901-1972) was an underrated film actor with surprising range and a little-heralded gift for comedy. Often typecast as a villain...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Smit studies the woman behind the public image as a natural, wholesome, even saintly person, an image carefully crafted by Bergman's first produ...

The remarkable career of American actress Eve Arden (1908-1990) is thoroughly chronicled from her earliest stage work in 1926 (under her given n...

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...

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...

Ginette Vincendeau analyses Bardot''s rise to fame as a highly-acclaimed French international film star and fashion icon from her early days as a f...

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...

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...