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Universal Women: Filmmaking and Institutional Change in Early Hollywood

by Mark Garrett Cooper

Between 1912 and 1919, the Universal Film Manufacturing Company credited eleven women with directing at least 170 films, but by the mid-1920s all of these directors had left Universal and only one still worked...


Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

by Celestino Deleyto & Maria del Mar Azcona

This in-depth study of Mexican film director Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu explores his role in moving Mexican filmmaking from a traditional nationalist agenda toward a more global focus. Working in the United...


Scripting Hitchcock: Psycho, The Birds, and Marnie

by Walter Raubicheck & Walter Srebnick

Scripting Hitchcock explores the collaborative process between Alfred Hitchcock and the screenwriters he hired to write the scripts for three of his greatest films: Psycho, The Birds, and Marnie. Drawing from...


Hollywood's Italian American Filmmakers: Capra, Scorsese, Savoca, Coppola, and Tarantino

by Jonathan J. Cavallero

Hollywood's Italian American Filmmakers explores the different ways in which Italian American directors from the 1920s to the present have responded to their ethnicity. Jonathan J. Cavallero examines the films...


Hal Hartley

by Mark L. Berrettini

Since the late 1980s, Hal Hartley has challenged standards of realist narrative cinema with daring narrative constructions, character development, and the creation of an unconventional visual world. In this...


Image Studies: Theory and Practice

by Sunil Manghani

Image Studies offers an engaging introduction to visual and image studies.

In order to better understand images and visual culture the book seeks to bridge between theory and practice; asking the reader to think...


Communicating Marginalized Masculinities: Identity Politics in TV, Film, and New Media

by Ronald L. Jackson II & Jamie E. Moshin

For years, research concerning masculinities has explored the way that men have dominated, exploited, and dismantled societies, asking how we might make sense of marginalized masculinities in the context of...


Dr. Seuss and Mr. Geisel: A Biography

by Judith Morgan & Neil Morgan

The definitive biography of the beloved children's author re-released in celebration of the new musical "Seussical".


Peep Shows: Cult Film and the Cine-Erotic

by Xavier Mendik

From mediations on explicit imagery and profiles of prominent performers to discussions of national nudities and the titillating thrills of new technologies, cine-erotica has become a significant and subversive...


When The Shooting Stops ... The Cutting Begins: A Film Editor's Story

by Ralph Rosenblum & Robert Karen

"The story of one of the most important and least-understood jobs in moviemaking—film editing—is here told by one of the wizards, Ralph Rosenblum, whose credentials include six Woody Allen films, as we"


Screening Generation X: The Politics and Popular Memory of Youth in Contemporary Cinema

by Lee

Screening Generation X: The Politics and Popular Memory of Youth in Contemporary Cinema examines popular representations of Generation X in American and British film. In arguing that the various constructions...


5001 Nights at the Movies

by Pauline Kael

The intelligent person’s guide to the movies, with more than 2,800 reviews Look up a movie in this guide, and chances are you’ll find yourself reading on about the next movie and the next. Pauline Kael’s...


The Big Lebowski: An Illustrated, Annotated History of the Greatest Cult Film of All Time

by Jenny M. Jones

Whether contending with nihilists, botching a kidnapping pay-off, watching as his beloved rug is micturated upon, or simply bowling and drinking Caucasians, the Dude-or El Duderino if you're not into the whole...


The Big Screen

by David Thomson

The Big Screen tells the enthralling story of the movies: their rise and spread, their remarkable influence over us, and the technology that made the screen—smaller now, but ever more ubiquitous—as important...


Movie-Made America: A Cultural History of American Movies

by Robert Sklar

Hailed as the definitive work upon its original publication in 1975 and now extensively revised and updated by the author, this vastly absorbing and richly illustrated book examines film as an art form, technological...


The A to Z of Spanish Cinema

by Alberto Mira

The A to Z of Spanish Cinema provides a better understanding of the role Spanish cinema has played in film history through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced...


Romantic vs. Screwball Comedy: Charting the Difference

by Wes D. Gehring & Steve Bell

Including over 60 titles each of romantic and screwball comedy dating from the 1930's to the present, this research tool not only demonstrates how screwball and romantic comedy are two distinct genres, but also...


The A to Z of African American Cinema

by Torriano S. Berry & Venise T. Berry

Through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, appendixes, black-&-white photos, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on actors, actresses, movies, producers, organizations, awards,...


Mean Streets and Raging Bulls: The Legacy of Film Noir in Contemporary American Cinema

by Richard Martin

Explores how, since its apparent demise in the late fifties, the noir genre has been revitalized during the post-studio era.


Republic Studios: Beyond Poverty Row and the Majors

by Richard M. Hurst

Republic Studios: Between Poverty Row and the Majors documents the influence and significance of this major B studio. Originally published in 1979, this book provides a brief overview of the studio's economic...