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The Atomic Bomb in Japanese Cinema
Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
Seventy years after the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan is still dealing with the effects of the bombings on the national psyche. From the Occupation Period to the present, Japanese cinema had offered a means of coming to terms with one of the most controversial events of the 20th...
Giant Creatures in Our World
Essays on Kaiju and American Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
Dismissed as camp by critics but revered by fans, the kaiju or "strange creature" film has become an iconic element of both Japanese and American pop culture. From homage to parody to advertising, references to Godzilla—and to a lesser extent Gamera, Rodan, Ultraman and others—abound...
Japan's Green Monsters
Environmental Commentary in Kaiju Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
In 1954, a massive irradiated dinosaur emerged from Tokyo Bay and rained death and destruction on the Japanese capital. Since then Godzilla and other monsters, such as Mothra and Gamera, have gained cult status around the world. This book provides a new interpretation of these monsters, or kaiju-ū,...
The Complete Kay Francis Career Record
All Film, Stage, Radio and Television Appearances
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
This book is the definitive guide to the film, stage, radio and television career of Kay Francis, one of the most glamorous stars from the golden age of Hollywood. For each film, the authors provide a thorough synopsis plus cast and crew information (including biographies), opening dates, production...
Marjorie Main
The Life and Films of Hollywood's "Ma Kettle"
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
She was a slum mother, witty housekeeper, nosy neighbor, meddling maid, town gossip, and most memorably, Ma Kettle. Marjorie Main is best remembered for her portrayal of the farm mother of 15 children and wife of shiftless Pa Kettle. The characters were introduced in the 1945 film The Egg and I, and...
by Dan Callahan
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Some people claim that audiences go to the movies for the genre. Others say they go for the director. But most really go to see their favorite actors and actresses. This book explores the work of many of classic Hollywood’s influential stars, such as James Cagney, Bette Davis, Cary Grant and Katharine...
Oscar Wilde in Quotation
3,100 Insults, Anecdotes and Aphorisms, Topically Arranged with Attributions
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
“He had that rarest of all things, common sense.” And in the case of Oscar Wilde he also had a gift for delivering this common sense in sometimes pithy but always memorable statements. One of the world’s most unforgettable authors, Oscar Wilde had a comment for any and every occasion, many of...
Femme Noir
Bad Girls of Film
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Though often thought of as primarily a male vehicle, the film noir offered some of the most complex female roles of any movies of the 1940s and 1950s. Stars such as Barbara Stanwyck, Gene Tierney and Joan Crawford produced some of their finest performances in noir movies, while such lesser known actresses...
The Sound of Silence
Conversations with 16 Film and Stage Personalities Who Bridged the Gap Between Silents and Talkies
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Marion Shilling began her career as a silent film ingenue for MGM and went on to play heroines in Westerns of the 1930s. Stage actress Esther Muir made the transition from Broadway to Hollywood just as talkies became popular. Hugh Allan was a leading man in the last years of the silents only to leave...
William Holden
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
William Holden was a Hollywood star whose career spanned four decades, more than 70 films and three Academy Award nominations. “Golden Holden” won an Oscar for his role in Stalag 17 and, after films like Sunset Blvd., he became one of Hollywood’s most powerful stars in the late 1950s. His personal...
Janet Leigh
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
For the first decade of her career Leigh appeared as the stereotypical “nice girl.” She was cast opposite some of the industry’s biggest names including Robert Mitchum in Holiday Affair, Stewart Granger in Scaramouche, James Stewart in The Naked Spur, and Charlton Heston in Touch of Evil. Alfred...
Going to Pieces
The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film, 1978-1986
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
John Carpenter’s Halloween, released on October 25, 1978, marked the beginning of the horror film’s most colorful, controversial, and successful offshoot—the slasher film. Loved by fans and reviled by critics for its iconic psychopaths, gory special effects, brainless teenagers in peril, and...
William Powell
The Life and Films
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Actor William Powell is perhaps best known for his roles as charming Nick in The Thin Man films and blustery Clarence Day in Life with Father. As diverse as those characters are, they don't begin to reveal the full scope of talent demonstrated by one of Hollywood's most intelligent leading men. Elegant,...
How He-Man Mastered the Universe
Toy to Television to the Big Screen
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
Elaborate cinematic universes and sophisticated marketing tie-ins are commonplace in entertainment today. It’s easy to forget that the transmedia trend began in 1982 with a barbarian action figure. He-Man and the other characters in Mattel’s popular Masters of the Universe toy line quickly found...