Films, Cinema

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 ...

The western genre touched on ideals of honor, conquest, and freedom of spirit, and its stories packed cinemas of the early sound era. This volum...

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

One of the top-grossing independent films of all time, The Evil Dead (1981) sparked a worldwide cult following, resulting in sequels, remakes, m...

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...

A hit television show about a fictitious rock band, The Monkees (1966-1968) earned two Emmys-Best Comedy Series and Best Director. Capitalizing on ...

As the British watched their empire crumble and the United States became the dominant world power, many British films warned of the dangers pose...

Wonder women, G.I. Janes, and vampire slayers increasingly populate the American cultural landscape. What do these figures mean in the American cul...

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

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...

This is the first book-length study of the 12 films starring African American Renaissance man Paul Robeson (1898-1976). Singer, actor, author, l...

Walter Brennan (1894-1974) was one of the greatest character actors in Hollywood history. He won three Academy Awards and became a national icon st...

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...

In recent years horror and gothic themes have penetrated mainstream popular culture in a manner unseen since the horror boom of the 1970s. Prime...

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...

Some critics rank biographers just above serial murderers. The author of this book, a self-described member of the Samuel Johnson school, doesn'...

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...

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

In Film and Literary Modernism, the connections between film, modernist literature, and the arts are explored by an international group of scholars...

The writers of these chapters are often working with changing assumptions about literary and media interpretations of an American West. Here we see...

Most people know that Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993) was a Hollywood movie star and world famous fashion icon. What, perhaps, they don't know is that s...