Writers have fought shy of a history of film because the field has become so vast—the cinema is now over …
The Hollywood family film is one of the most popular, commercially-successful and culturally significant forms of mass entertainment. This book …
“This extraordinary book is not only a chronicle of Ron’s and Clint’s early careers and their wild adventures, but also …
This is the second volume of Thomas Cripps's definitive history of African-Americans in Hollywood. It covers the period from World …
The image in Hollywood movies of savage Indians attacking white settlers represents only one side of a very complicated picture. …
This is a moving, star-filled account of one of Hollywood’s true golden ages as told by a man in the …
An Army of Phantoms is a major new work of history and film criticism from the highly regarded critic J. …
In Rebel Without a Crew, screenwriter and director Robert Rodriguez discloses all the unique strategies and original techniques he used …
The undisputed master of compelling, sexy novels does it again in this scalding story of an egomaniacal Hollywood superstar, a …
Dolores del Río's enormously successful career in Hollywood, in Mexico, and internationally illuminates issues of race, ethnicity, and gender through …
Newly discharged from the Marines after World War II, Scotty Bowers arrived in Hollywood in 1946. Young, charismatic, and strikingly …
Offering both in-depth analyses of specific films and overviews of the industry's output, Hollywood's Indian provides insightful characterizations of the …
At once informative, comic, and plaintive, Seeing Red—Hollywood’s Pixeled Skins is an anthology of critical reviews that reexamines the ways …
Hollywood was not always a bastion of liberalism. Following World War II, an informal alliance of movie stars, studio moguls, …
The films, the stars, the filmmakers-all get their due inHollywood Black, a sweeping overview of blacks in film from the …
From D.W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation" to Spike Lee's "Malcolm X", Ed Guerrero argues, the commercial film industry …
The triple crown of Oscars awarded to Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, and Sidney Poitier on a single evening in 2002 …
When the 2016 Oscar acting nominations all went to whites for the second consecutive year, #OscarsSoWhite became a trending topic. …
This unprecedented history of Black cinema examines 100 years of Black movies—from Gone with the Wind to Blaxploitation films to …
The story of racial hierarchy in the American film industry The #OscarsSoWhite campaign, and the content of the leaked Sony …
From 1934 to 1954 Joseph I. Breen, a media-savvy Victorian Irishman, reigned over the Production Code Administration, the Hollywood office …
The figure of the vampire serves as both object and mode of analysis for more than a century of Hollywood …
FOREWORD BY SHERYL SANDBERG You’ve almost certainly laughed at Scovell’s jokes—you just didn’t know it until now. Just the Funny …
Censorship has been an ongoing issue from the early days of filmmaking. One hundred years of film censorship, encompassing the …
"A chronicle of the massive transformation in Hollywood since the turn of the century and the huge changes yet to …
Lighthearted, quirky, and upbeat, this book explores the portrayal of science and technology on both the big and little screen …
Hollywood Drive: What it Takes to Break in, Hang in & Make it in the Entertainment Industry is the essential …
From the acclaimed author of Joan Crawford comes a riveting and uncensored biography of Clark Gable. The archetypal male of …
