The author of Complicated Women turns his attention to the male Hollywood star, revealing how the actors in 1920s and 1930s Hollywood helped redefine masculinity in America. 10 ...

Critical biography of Sessue Hayakawa, a Japanese actor who became a popular silent film star in the U.S., that looks at how Hollywood treated issues of race and nationality in ...

Dickens on Screen is a broad ranging investigation of over a century of film adaptations of Dickens's works.

Coming of age in Paris in the 1920s, film and stage actress Lois Moran was a rumored paramour of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and the inspiration for the character of Rosemary in ...

Offers an entertaining and educational guide to the filmmaking process, through the lens of fifty landmark films that epitomize fifty key aspects of the art of cinema.

An exploration of women in pre-Code Hollywood explores the careers--between 1929 and 1934--of such stars as Greta Garbo and Norma Shearer, showing how they presented thoroughly ...

An exploration of women in pre-Code Hollywood explores the careers--between 1929 and 1934--of such stars as Greta Garbo and Norma Shearer, showing how they presented thoroughly ...

By any reasonable expectation, George Arliss should not have succeeded as a star, either on stage or in film. Yet he achieved a career enjoyed by very few in the performing ...

Once derided as senseless entertainment, movies have gradually assumed a place among the arts. Raymond Haberski's provocative and insightful book traces the trajectory of this ...

Once derided as senseless entertainment, movies have gradually assumed a place among the arts. Raymond Haberski's provocative and insightful book traces the trajectory of this ...