Film, television, radio and performing arts genres

In Dining with Madmen: Fat, Food, and the Environment in 1980s Horror, author Thomas Fahy explores America's preoccupation with body weight, processed foods, and pollution through the lens of horror.

He was Red Skelton's favorite director, and mentored Lucille Ball in the art of physical comedy.

The ground has shifted from the days in which "e;serious history"e; and "e;boring"e; went hand in glove.

The original Star Wars trilogy famously follows Joseph Campbell's model for the hero's journey, making Luke Skywalker's story the new hero quest for a modern age.

How did beloved movie dogs become man-killers like Cujo and his cinematic pack-mates?

In this groundbreaking work, author David Scott Diffrient explores largely understudied facets of cinematic horror, from the various odors permeating classic and contemporary films to the wetness, sliminess, and stickiness of these productions, which, he argues, practically scream out for a tactile mode of textural analysis as much as they call for more traditional forms of textual analysis.

Combining thematic analysis and stimulating close readings, The Collar is a wide-ranging study of the many ways--heroic or comic, shrewd or dastardly--Christian ministers have been represented in literature and film.

Can science fiction--especially sci-fi cinema--save the world?

Dismissed as camp by critics but revered by fans, the kaiju or "e;strange creature"e; film has become an iconic element of both Japanese and American pop culture.

Stories of world-ending catastrophe have featured prominently in film and television.

Joss Whedon's works, across all media including television, film, musicals, and comic books, are known for their commitment to gender and sexual equality.

How does a culture respond when the limits of childhood become uncertain?

The Definitive Slasher Movie Reference The slasher movie is the most reviled but successful of horror's subgenres.

From the beginning, horror has been part of the cinema landscape.

The ever-popular "e;Whedonverse"e; television shows--Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly and Dollhouse--have inspired hundreds of articles and dozens of books.

Horror fiction--in literature, film and television--display a wealth of potential, and appeal to diverse audiences.

Since its dedication in 1982, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial has become an American cultural icon symbolizing the war in Vietnam--the defining experience of the Baby Boom generation.

Science has always been part of Doctor Who.

In 1944, Laird Cregar played Jack the Ripper in The Lodger, giving one of the most haunting performances in Hollywood history.

Few scary stories begin with a disclaimer that they are fictional.

Meet more than 350 incredible clones and droids from Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

Since public audiences were first introduced to the medium of film in 1895, the Catholic Church has sought to impose its will on the distribution and exhibition of movies.

Two horror films were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2018, and one of them-The Shape of Water-won.

The complete Timothy Lea and Rosie Dixon confessions from the CONFESSIONS series, the brilliant sex comedies from the 70s, available for the first time in eBook.

Home, we are taught from childhood, is safe.

Orphan Black's Tatiana Maslany plays a host of the show's main characters, all clones of an illegal experiment.

Hollywood studios were once eager to bring stand-up comedy king Richard Pryor's dynamic humor to the big screen--so much so that studio executives gave him full access to available resources and creative control to develop his own projects.

From the beginning, both Robert Kirkman's comics and AMC's series of The Walking Dead have brought controversy in their presentations of race, gender and sexuality.

A popular phenomenon since antiquity, the image of the haunted house is one that has translated elegantly into the modern medium of film.

The "e;Gothic"e; style was a key trend in Italian cinema of the 1950s and 1960s because of its peculiar, often strikingly original approach to the horror genre.

Through its six-season run, television's Grimm used the extraordinary to illuminate the complexity of the ordinary.

Holocaust movies have become an important segment of world cinema and the de-facto Holocaust education for many.

The first of its kind, this guide to California filming sites covers five decades of science fiction, fantasy, and horror in chapter plays.

From the beginning, both Robert Kirkman's comics and AMC's series of The Walking Dead have brought controversy in their presentations of race, gender and sexuality.

The horror and psychological denial of our mortality, along with the corruptibility of our flesh, are persistent themes in drama.

A four year old Mexican American girl is taken away from her parents because she is obese and experiencing health problems related to her weight.

When Carole Lombard was tragically killed in a plane crash on January 16, 1942, she was 33 years old and had been a film actress for almost 20 years, yet her best work probably still lay ahead.

This work offers a critical examination of 130 commercially-released film comedies of the 1970s.

Today more than ever, series finales have become cultural touchstones that feed watercooler fodder and Twitter storms among a committed community of viewers.

In 1997, the superhero movie was all but dead.

Few scary stories begin with a disclaimer that they are fictional.

Taking a postmodern critical approach, this collection of new essays explores The CW Network's popular television drama The Vampire Diaries, taking in the complete original series (2009-2017), its spinoffs, source novels and fan fiction.

When The Shield first appeared on US television in March 2002, it broke ratings records with the highest audience-rated original series premiere in cable history.

Are meaning and purpose still possible in life?

Mothers on American television takes an in-depth look at how motherhood is represented on some of the most popular television series produced this century.

The day-by-day inside story of the making of Tombstone (1993) as told to the author by those who were there--actors, extras, crew members, Buckaroos, historians and everyone in between.

For the first time ever, immerse yourself in the action-packed thrills of DC at the movies in one spectacular book.

Greatly expanded and updated from the 1977 original, this new edition explores the evolution of the modern horror film, particularly as it reflects anxieties associated with the atomic bomb, the Cold War, 1960s violence, sexual liberation, the Reagan revolution, 9/11 and the Iraq War.

Discusses Jay Leno's unique sense of humor, from his days as a New England schoolboy to his role as the top-rated late-night TV talk-show host, and examines some of the challenges and conflicts he faced to make it to where he is today.