Films, cinema

Analyzes The Donna Reed Show, which aired from 1958 to 1966, as a key moment of cultural transition.

Animation-Art and Industry is an introductory reader covering a broad range of animation studies topics, focusing on both American and international contexts.

Characterized by grandiose song-and-dance numbers featuring ornate geometric patterns and mimicked in many modern films, Busby Berkeley's (1895-1976) unique artistry is as recognizable and striking as ever.

Animators work within a strictly defined, limited space that requires difficult artistic decisions.

In 1953, the same year that Elvis Presley cut his first demo, Cash Box magazine named the Hilltoppers the top vocal group of the year.

In the mid-20th century, Mickey Spillane was the sensation of not just mystery fiction but publishing itself.

Exemplarity and Chosenness is a combined study of the philosophies of Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) and Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) that explores the question: How may we account for the possibility of philosophy, of universalism in thinking, without denying that all thinking is also idiomatic and particular?

The success of low-budget independent films like The Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity have clearly demonstrated that successful movies can be made with very small budgets.

Some of the most beloved characters in film and television inhabit two-dimensional worlds that spring from the fertile imaginations of talented animators.

Harry Langdon was a silent screen comedian unlike any other.

Filled with a wide array of classic knitting patterns, this book is, in essence, the ultimate mitten book.

Paul Bern, known throughout the movie business as "e;Hollywood's Father Confessor,"e; earned a reputation for being a loyal and supportive friend and for becoming one of MGM's most respected and creative directors.

It could be said that the career of Canadian-born film director Allan Dwan (1885-1981) began at the dawn of the American motion picture industry.

In the early 1930s, George Raft, an actor and dancer from New York City's Hell's Kitchen, gained a name for himself playing stylish and charismatic gangsters in films like 1932's original Scarface.

This scholarly anthology presents a new framework for understanding early cinema through its usage outside the realm of entertainment.

Although film noir is traditionally associated with the mean streets of the Dark City, this volume explores the genre from a new angle, focusing on non-urban settings.

Filmmakers need more than heart, talent and desire to realize their dreams: they need production capital.

During the 1960s, a bushel of B-movies were produced and aimed at the predominantly teenage drive-in movie audience.

In 1929, Hollywood mogul William Fox (1879-1952) came close to controlling the entire motion picture industry.

Called the most beautiful woman in movie history, Gene Tierney starred in such 1940s classics as Laura, Leave Her to Heaven and The Ghost and Mrs.

Covering a range from supernatural fiction to dark fantasy to graphic horror, these 25 interviewees discuss the creative challenges, expectations and conventions of the horror genre.

The popularity of the His Dark Materials trilogy has generated a major motion picture, a stage play, video games, and a new prequel.

Good food is as much a part of the Kentucky heritage as fine horses and bourbon whiskey.

Belligerent and evasive, Josef von Sternberg chose to ignore his illegitimate birth in Austria, deprived New York childhood, abusive father, and lack of education.

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This critical text offers a behind-the-scenes look at fifteen of the most important American war films of the last 60 years.

Evelyn Brent's life and career were going quite well in 1928.

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Videoland offers a comprehensive view of the "e;tangible phase"e; of consumer video, when Americans largely accessed movies as material commodities at video rental stores.

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 beloved sci-fi and horror movies and television series.

Contrary to theories of single person authorship, America's Corporate Art argues that the corporate studio is the author of Hollywood motion pictures, both during the classical era of the studio system and beyond, when studios became players in global dramas staged by massive entertainment conglomerates.

The shower scene in Psycho; Cary Grant running for his life through a cornfield; innocent birds lined up on a fence waiting, watching these seminal cinematic moments are as real to moviegoers as their own lives.

This history of film noir explores the legacy and aesthetic roots of American filmmakers including Orson Welles, John Huston, Otto Preminger, and others.

An in-depth view of the way popular female stereotypes were reflected in-and were shaped by-the portrayal of women in Disney's animated features.

Offering both in-depth analyses of specific films and overviews of the industry's output, Hollywood's Indian provides insightful characterizations of the depiction of the Native Americans in film.

Eighteenth-century critics believed Gothic fiction would inspire deviant sexuality, instill heretical beliefs, and encourage antisocial violence--this book puts these beliefs to the test.

With his rugged features and earthy sex appeal, Victor Mature ushered in a new breed of postwar Hollywood actor, far removed from the debonair matinee idols of the 1930s.

Better Left Unsaid is in the unseemly position of defending censorship from the central allegations that are traditionally leveled against it.

The story of how the motion-picture device was developed, and its role in Victorian society and early cinema.

This fascinating study of early cinema in the Netherlands Indies explores the influences of new media technology on colonial society.

Essays on "e;how motion pictures in the first two decades of the 20th century constructed 'communities of nationality' .

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During the 1910s, motion pictures came to dominate every aspect of life in the suburban New Jersey community of Fort Lee.

Dolores del Rio's enormously successful career in Hollywood, in Mexico, and internationally illuminates issues of race, ethnicity, and gender through the lenses of beauty and celebrity.

It has become a commonplace that "e;images"e; were central to the twentieth century and that their role will be even more powerful in the twenty-first.

In 1935 Sidney Kingsley's play about streetwise urban kids, Dead End, opened on Broadway featuring 14 adolescent actors.

By identifying points at which "e;pure filmdiscourse merges with changing international trends and attitudes toward film, it offers an important resource for film, literary, and cultural historians.

During the Silent Era, when most films dealt with dramatic or comedic takes on the "e;boy meets girl, boy loses girl"e; theme, other motion pictures dared to tackle such topics as rejuvenation, revivication, mesmerism, the supernatural and the grotesque.

Blessed with a natural beauty, Scotland-born actress Deborah Kerr (1921-2007) provided the cinema with memorable studies of English gentility.