Films, Cinema

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...

This book places Taiwanese cinema from the 1980s onwards in both national and transnational contexts. In the Taiwanese film industry, the dichotomy...

Tom Mix became a major star in the 1920s, earning over $900,000 for his movie work in 1921. Fox refused, however, to renew his contract in 1927, an...

The findings of this book are drawn from a conference held in 2013 in Kaunas, Lithuania, titled Music and Technologies 2 , which provided a contin...

Profiling World War II veterans who became famous Hollywood personalities, this book presents biographical chapters on celebrities like Audie Mu...

In her 60-year career, Joanne Woodward has been a film, television and stage actress, television producer and director, stage director, and film...

At the height of her celebrity, Madeleine Carroll (1906-1987) was the world's highest-paid actress. She worked alongside such greats as Laurence...

In an era of reboots, restarts and retreads, J.J. Abrams' Star Trek trilogy--featuring new, prequel adventures of Kirk, Spock and the rest of th...

From the 1950s through the 1970s, disaster films were among the most popular on any genre. Audiences loved the thrill and spectacle of these movies...

In this jam-packed jamboree of conversations, more than 60 movie veterans describe their experiences on the sets of some of the world's most bel...

Peplum or sword-and-sandal films--an Italian genre of the late 1950s through the 1960s--featured ancient Greek, Roman and Biblical stories with ...

Sir Christopher Lee (1922-2015) was one of the most beloved actors of the past sixty years. He appeared in more than 200 feature films--from Ham...

Mars has long served as a blank canvas for illustrating society's aspirations and anxieties--a science fiction setting for exploring our future ...

I wish I could have had this book when I was starting out in the business. An invaluable reference work. -Alan Poul, producer, WestworldThe legal...

In his remarkable 50-year career, D-Day veteran, international film publicist and executive and production associate Charles Jerry Juroe met, kn...

During the 1960s, many models, Playboy centerfolds, beauty queens, and Las Vegas showgirls went on to become decorative actresses appearing scan...

Vampire narratives are generally thought of as adult or young adult fare, yet there is a long history of their appearance in books, film and ot...

Harry Potter, A Fish Called Wanda, Inspector Morse, Downton Abbey and X Men are just a few of the films that have become synonymous with the world ...

The all too brief career of film star Olive Borden (1906-1947) is chronicled in this definitive biography. Apprenticing in short slapstick silent c...

Ma Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, Mammy in Gone with the Wind, Auntie Em in The Wizard of Oz --all were unforgettable characters who played an int...