Individual Actors & Performers

Characters are central to our experiences of screened fictions and invite a host of questions. The contributors to Screening Characters draw on arc...

Go behind the scenes with the musician The New York Times called a guitar God!Oft-hailed as the Jimi Hendrix of his generation, living guitar legen...

Written by a highly influential post-Stanislavskian practitioner, this book offers an accessible and contemporary interpretation of The Method, set...

Written by a highly influential post-Stanislavskian practitioner, this book offers an accessible and contemporary interpretation of The Method, set...

Over the last eighty years, Marlon Brando has become such an object of fascination, buried under so many accreted layers of mythos and half-truth, ...

Nashville is filled with stars and lovers and writers and dreamers. Nashville is also teeming with lunatics and grifters and dip wads and moochers....

For the first time ever, the two people who knew Andy Kaufman best open up about the most enigmatic artist of our generation. Comedian and Taxi st...

One L meets You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town AgainIn this comic and moving and completely true tale, Film School reveals what life is like at th...

As only an accomplished author, consummate collector, and savvy insider can, John Kobal tells the story of the man who invented Hollywood, Cecil Bl...

A career-spanning volume, Tyler Perry: Interviews collects sixteen interviews, ranging from the early 2000s to 2018. Once a destitute and strugglin...

Su Friedrich (b. 1954) has been described as an autobiographical filmmaker, an experimental filmmaker, a documentary filmmaker, an independent film...

Animated by a singularly subversive spirit, the fiendishly intelligent works of Stuart Gordon (19472020) are distinguished by their arrant boldness...

From the late 1920s through the thirties, Greta Garbo (19051990) was the biggest star in Hollywood. She stopped making films in 1941, at only thirt...

Loretta Young (1913-2000) was an Academy Award-winning actress known for devout Catholicism and her performances in The Farmer's Daughter, The Bish...

No recent television creator has generated more critical, scholarly, and popular discussion or acquired as devoted a cult following as Joss Whedon ...

In Albert and David Maysles: Interviews, editor Keith Beattie has compiled a wide-ranging collection in which the brothers, together and separately...

A filmmaker whose work exhibits a wide range of styles and approaches, Louis Malle (19321995) was the only French director of his generation to enj...

Best known for her Oscar-nominated roles in the smash hits Paper Moon and Blazing Saddles, Madeline Kahn (1942-1999) was one of the most popular co...

On December 22, 1953, Mort Sahl (b. 1927) took the stage at San Franciscos hungry i and changed comedy forever. Before him, standup was about every...

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) was one of the most acclaimed, popular, and controversial American playwrights of the twentieth century. The Glass M...

The fan magazine has often been viewed simply as a publicity tool, a fluffy exercise in self-promotion by the film industry. But as an arbiter of g...