Smart Chicks on Screen

• Paperback | Engels | Film and History
• In Smart Chicks on Screen: Representing Women's Intellect in Film and Television, Laura Mattoon D'Amore brings together a collection of essays that ex... Lees meer

Hollywood and the End of the Cold War

Bryn Upton

• Hardcover | Engels | Film and History
• This volume compares films from the late Cold War era with films of the same genre, or of similar themes, from the post-Cold War era, paying particula... Lees meer

Bringing History to Life through Film

• Hardcover | Engels | Film and History
• This collection of essays addresses important questions about the relationship between fact and fiction: When does history become myth, and when does ... Lees meer

Food on Film

• Hardcover | Engels | Film and History
• This collection addresses the relative scarcity of work relating to food-film studies, showcasing innovative viewpoints about a popular, yet understud... Lees meer

The JFK Image

Raluca Lucia Cimpean

• Hardcover | Engels | Film and History
• This volume examines various representation of John F. Kennedy on film, from fictionalized accounts of his wartime exploits--PT-109 (1963)--to his pre... Lees meer

Hollywood Enlists!

Ralph Donald

• Hardcover | Engels | Film and History
• This book explores how the Hollywood studios used sophisticated strategies of propaganda to ideologically unite the country during WWII. Through such ... Lees meer

Real War vs. Reel War

Suzanne Broderick

• Hardcover | Engels | Film and History
• In this book, World War II veterans compare their wartime experiences--as soldiers, pilots, "code talkers," and prisoners of war--to on-screen portray... Lees meer

Adapting the Beat Poets

Michael J Prince

• Hardcover | Engels | Film and History
• William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac were three of the most significant figures of the Beat Generation, whose writings have been ada... Lees meer

Native Americans on Network TV

Michael Ray Fitzgerald

• Hardcover | Engels | Film and History
• This book argues that the US is a great colonial power and that this is clearly evident in network television's treatment of minorities and colonized ... Lees meer

Hollywood and the Holocaust

Henry Gonshak

• Hardcover | Engels | Film and History
• 2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the WWII's end and the beginning of the general public's awareness of Holocaust atrocities. This book offers an imp... Lees meer

Smart Chicks on Screen

• Hardcover | 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

Buccaneer

Donald Dewey

• Hardcover | Engels | Film and History
• This is an in-depth look at the life and career of James Stuart Blackton (1875-1941), the first great commercial vendor of cinema who grasped that mot... 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

From the Headlines to Hollywood

Chris Yogerst

• Hardcover | Engels | Film and History
• This book looks at how the Warner Bros. studio used edgy, stylistic, and brutally honest films to construct a view of America from 1927-1941. Author C... Lees meer

Critical Perspectives on the Western

Lee Broughton

• Hardcover | Engels | Film and History
• The Western film continues to be reexamined by scholars, and this collection offers engaging essays on a variety of films and television shows that re... Lees meer

Propaganda Documentaries in France

Jean-Pierre Bertin-Maghit

• Hardcover | Engels | Film and History
• This is the first volume specifically devoted to non-fiction propaganda film distributed in France during the "Dark Years" of the German Occupation. T... Lees meer

The Hollywood Trust

Kia Afra

• Hardcover | Engels | Film and History
• The Hollywood Trust: Trade Associations and the Rise of the Studio System offers a rare look at the Hollywood trade organizations that rose during the... 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
• The past three decades have seen the rise of a transnational European cinema, not only in terms of production, but also in terms of a growing focus on... Lees meer

Talking about Pauline Kael

• Hardcover | Engels | Film and History
• For nearly 25 years, Pauline Kael (1919-2001) was one of America's most respected, controversial, and talked-about film reviewer, yet her film critici... 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