Smart Chicks on Screen

• Paperback | Engels | Film and History
• While women have long been featured in leading roles in film and television, the intellectual depictions of female characters in these mediums are out... Lees meer

Hollywood and the End of the Cold War

Bryn Upton

• Hardcover | Engels | Film and History
• From the late 1940s until the early 1990s, the Cold War was perhaps the most critical and defining aspect of American culture, influencing television,... Lees meer

Bringing History to Life through Film

• Hardcover | Engels | Film and History
• Whether re-creating an actual event or simply being set in a bygone era, films have long taken liberties with the truth. While some members of the aud... Lees meer

Food on Film

• Hardcover | Engels | Film and History
• From early cinematic depictions of food as a symbol of ethnic and cultural identity to more complex contemporary portrayals, movies have demonstrated ... Lees meer

JFK Image

Raluca Lucia Cimpean

• Hardcover | Engels | Film and History
• One of the most popular presidents of the twentieth century, John F. Kennedy has been the subject of countless books, documentaries, and portrayals bo... Lees meer

Hollywood Enlists!

Ralph Donald

• Hardcover | Engels | Film and History
• Frequently referred to as "the Greatest Generation," Americans of the World War II era were influenced by Hollywood's depictions of their nation, its ... Lees meer

Real War vs. Reel War

Suzanne Broderick

• Hardcover | Engels | Film and History
• World War II has been the subject of hundreds, if not thousands, of films produced in the United States alone. From training camp scenes in See Here, ... Lees meer

Adapting the Beat Poets

Michael J Prince

• Hardcover | Engels | Film and History
• In the post-World War II era, authors of the beat generation produced some of the most enduring literature of the day. More than six decades since, wo... Lees meer

Native Americans on Network TV

Michael Ray Fitzgerald

• Hardcover | Engels | Film and History
• The American Indian has figured prominently in many films and television shows, portrayed variously as a villain, subservient friend, or a hapless vic... Lees meer

Hollywood and the Holocaust

Henry Gonshak

• Hardcover | Engels | Film and History
• The Holocaust has been the focus of countless films in the United States, Great Britain, and Europe, and its treatment over the years has been the sub... Lees meer

Buccaneer

Donald Dewey

• Hardcover | Engels | Film and History
• A man of many film firsts, James Stuart Blackton promoted motion pictures as a mass commercial medium by creating the first true movie studio, adoptin... Lees meer

From the Headlines to Hollywood

Chris Yogerst

• Hardcover | Engels | Film and History
• More than any other studio, Warner Bros. used edgy, stylistic, and brutally honest films to construct a view of America that was different from the us... Lees meer

The Tube Has Spoken

• Hardcover | Engels | Film and History
• Featuring ordinary people, celebrities, game shows, hidden cameras, everyday situations, and humorous or dramatic situations, reality TV is one of the... Lees meer

Critical Perspectives on the Western

Lee Broughton

• Hardcover | Engels | Film and History
• For decades, the Western film has been considered a dying breed of cinema, yet filmmakers from Quentin Tarantino to Ethan and Joel Coen find new ways ... Lees meer

Propaganda Documentaries in France

Jean-Pierre Bertin-Maghit

• Hardcover | Engels | Film and History
• In occupied France, the Nazis pursued aggressive, tightly orchestrated measures designed to monopolize the French market and foster agitation against ... Lees meer

Laurel and Hardy's Comic Catastrophes

Michael Bliss

• Hardcover | Engels | Film and History
• A discussion of Laurel and Hardy films in a way that is both critical and appreciative, Bliss explores how complex the comedic duo's films are in term... Lees meer

The Hollywood Trust

Kia Afra

• Hardcover | Engels | Film and History
• As the film industry was establishing itself at the start of the twentieth century, trade associations played a pivotal role in the emergence of the s... Lees meer

All-Stars and Movie Stars

• Hardcover | Engels | Film and History
• Sports films are popular forms of entertainment around the world, but beyond simply amusing audiences, they also reveal much about class, race, gender... Lees meer

Why We Fought

Peter C Rollins, John E O'Connor

• Hardcover | Engels | Film and History
• Film moves audiences like no other medium; both documentaries and feature films are especially remarkable for their ability to influence viewers. Best... Lees meer

European Cinema after the Wall

• Hardcover | Engels | Film and History
• Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, transnational European cinema has risen, not only in terms of production but also in terms of a growing foc... Lees meer

Talking about Pauline Kael

• Hardcover | Engels | Film and History
• For nearly 25 years, Pauline Kael was one of America's most respected, controversial, and talked-about film reviewers. A contributor to the New Yorker... Lees meer

The Tube Has Spoken

Julie Anne Taddeo, Ken Dvorak

• Paperback | Engels | Film and History
• Featuring ordinary people, celebrities, game shows, hidden cameras, everyday situations, and humorous or dramatic situations, reality TV is one of the... Lees meer