Films, Cinema

Though best known for its horror films, Hammer produced a wide variety of movies in many genres. The British studio was famous for its exciting ...

Despite being a mediocre actress with less than classic beauty, Theda Bara was one of Hollywood's leading performers in the early years of cinem...

Arnold made some of the most enduring science fiction films of the 1950s--It Came from Outer Space, Creature from the Black Lagoon, and The Incredi...

Illustrating the multifaceted art of screenwriting, this guide expertly navigates its vital aspectsdramatic structure, the creation of character, a...

For fifty years, the newsreel was a fixture in American movie theaters. Released twice a week, less than ten minutes long, each had news footage...

A complete guide to all phases of documentary production, this is an essential handbook for student filmmakers and professional documentarians a...

From the obscure 1958 Sonja Henie vehicle Hello London to the 2000 Academy Award winner Gladiator, the screen career of dynamic British actor Ol...

This collection of interviews, all conducted by the author, focuses on the children of Hollywood legends. Each child (and, in one case, grandchi...

Having entered the world in 1896 as a poverty-stricken child named Naftaly (Nathan) Birnbaum, George Burns rose from New York's Lower East Side ...

Throughout the 1930s, 40s and 50s, several independent film production companies (referred to a poverty row studios) turned out hundreds of B movie...

This reference work provides production company-written plot synopses or, when a synopsis was not available, trade paper reviews of 476 films ab...

Pity the extras. Mostly overlooked and forgotten. Especially those in the major Hollywood films 1913 to 1945--right through the dream factory's ...

Film history is merged with psychiatric history seamlessly, to show how and why bad depictions of mind doctors (especially hypnotists) occur in ...

With his rugged features and earthy sex appeal, Victor Mature ushered in a new breed of postwar Hollywood actor, far removed from the debonair m...

   Much has been written (and rewritten) about classic horror and science fiction films like Nosferatu and Metropolis, as well as not-so-classic pi...

In 1975, after his two Godfather epics, Francis Ford Coppola went to the Philippines to film Apocalypse Now. He scrapped much of the original scrip...

American dancer, singer and actress Gwen Verdon (1925-2000) won four Tony awards for her work on Broadway and also appeared in films and on tele...

The films of the New French Extremity have been reviled by critics but adored by fans and filmmakers. Known for graphically brutal depictions of se...

A number of thrillers made in the 1920s and 1930s have become available again thanks to new technology. There are a few, however, that remain el...

Proposing a fresh theoretical approach to the study of cinematic portrayals of the Middle Ages, this book uses both semiotics and historiography...

From his earliest shorts to his recent feature lms The Departed and Shutter Island, this book offers an in-depth analysis of the deepest archety...

This is the first study of the life and art of Sydney Chaplin, Charlie Chaplin's brother, a person notable not only for his importance in establ...

This critical survey examines the historical and thematic relationships between two of the cinema's most popular genres: horror and film noir. T...

A surge of immigration in the United States in the 1920s coincided with burgeoning developments in entertainment--including cinema. Movie houses...