Glancy tells the incredible story of how a sad, neglected boy became the suave, glamorous star many know and idolize...

Few mainstream filmmakers have as pronounced a disregard for the supposed rules of filmmaking as Martin Scorsese...

Yvonne Rainer is one of the most influential living choreographers...

This book combines quantitative data analysis with personal interviews to weave together the complicated picture of who the people behind some of our most cherished experiences are.

For seventeen years, Chris Fenton served as the president of DMG Entertainment Motion Picture Group, a multi-billion-dollar global media company headquartered in Beijing...

In the first ever behind-the-scenes story of Goodfellas, film critic Glenn Kenny chronicles the making and afterlife of the film that introduced America to the real modern gangster—brutal, ruthless...

Isaacs offers the first book-length study to examine the historical foundations and stylistic mechanics of pure cinema...

In 1927, the Hollywood stars (and spouses), Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr stood outside their California home, arms raised in fascist salute...

When weekly newsreels launched in the early twentieth century, they offered the U.S. public the first weekly record of events that symbolized “indisputable evidence” of the news...

Quiroga shows how the outlandish premises of many seminal science fiction movies are being made possible by new discoveries and technological advances in neuroscience and related fields.

In September 1941, a handful of isolationist senators set out to tarnish Hollywood for warmongering...

During a seven-decade career that spanned from 19th century Vienna to 1920s Broadway to the golden age of Hollywood, three-time Academy Award winner Max Steiner did more than any other composer to introduce and establish the language of film music....

Mahdi offers a comparative analysis of the portrayals of Arab Americans in film and interrogates how such representations have been, and continue to be, disrupted and challenged...

KIlbourn offers the first comprehensive study published in the English-speaking world on one of the most compelling figures in twenty-first century European film...

Bryne examines the technologically-mediated interactions that developed between live performances and their circulating images during this fraught period...

An interview with Joel West

Gomer illustrates the myriad of ways that Hollywood relied on and helped solidify an emerging ideology of colorblindness in the wake of the civil rights movement...

Arendell creates a revolutionary fusion of disability studies and performance studies...

A movie that began as a cautionary tale inspired by atomic scientists aiming to warn the world against a nuclear arms race would be drained of all impact due to revisions and retakes ordered by President Truman and the military..,.

Leonard examines the music and musicians that accompanied silent movies that she calls “spirit films”...

The book examines how TV impacts our expectations of leadership, organizational life, and pedagogy.

Is there a link between the colonization of Palestinian lands and the enclosing of Palestinian minds?

Brown engages with issues that are fundamental to present-day attempts to understand the Holocaust and deeply relevant to reflections on human nature...

Garrett brings his signature brand of theologically motivated cultural criticism to bear on this history...

Mason offers a sweeping history of Black theatre from the early nineteenth century through 1959...