This pioneering study offers the first thorough exploration of the movie industry's shaping role in the development of television and its narrative forms.

This fully revised and updated edition of an award-winning classic traces the history of Hollywood from the silent era to the present day. The Hollywood Storycomprehensively ...

A complete guide to Hollywood's top blockbuster films, from 1939 through 1988, details the five most successful movies of each year and includes facts about cast, credits ...

This book is a study of the rise and fall of an American genre of entertainment and communication whose symbols and rhetoric helped define American society for decades ...

Uses images of children in films as a benchmark to examine broadscale social change. Fascinating study...A lucid, authoritative and never ponderous examination of an important ...

Retells the Disney version of the tale of the beautiful princess and her adventures with the seven dwarfs she finds living in the forest. Also describes the making of the film.

In the first full-length study in English of Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio, the authors show how the checkered history of the puppet illuminates social change ...

Robert Louis Stevensons cinematic legacy is studied in-depth here, with a look at his life and his body of work. From The Sire De Maletroits Door (1877) to St. Ives (1896 ...

Behavioral inhibition, often displayed as shyness in children and avoidance in animals, can be observed in the earliest stages of infancy. Recent research indicates that in ...