Films, Cinema

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...

In The Story of Looking, Mark Cousins takes us on a lightning-bright tour - in words and images - through how our looking selves develop over the c...

This book is essentially a filmography interlaced with a complex biographical account of Marilyn Monroe's life and loves throughout her career. ...

This is the history of the Yiddish cinema, and the people who shaped its development. The films were intended as entertainment but also acted to re...

The High School outsider takes off her glasses, puts on a dress, and becomes the Prom Queen; the dowdy woman has her hair done, buys some chic new ...

This is a delightful collection of memories from the golden age of cinema in Manchester. Filled with archive images, it recalls courting days and w...

The High School outsider takes off her glasses, puts on a dress, and becomes the Prom Queen; the dowdy woman has her hair done, buys some chic new ...

I can never forget the excitement in my mind after seeing 'Pather Panchali', noted Akira Kurosawa. Satyajit Ray's three films about the boyhood, ad...

In recent decades in Spain and Latin America, transnational voices, typically stereotyped, alienated or co-opted in the Western world, have been ga...