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Ida Lupino, Forgotten Auteur
From Film Noir to the Director's Chair
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781477330654
Pub Date: December 10th, 2024
Format: Hardcover
240 Pages
An archival study of Ida Lupino’s work in film and television directing, writing, producing, and acting from the 1940s to the 1970s.
American Twilight
The Cinema of Tobe Hooper
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781477329467
Pub Date: February 6th, 2024
Format: Paperback
312 Pages
A master of gritty horror, Tobe Hooper captured on-screen an America in constant crisis and upended myths of prosperity to reveal the country’s internal decay.
Imagining the Method
Reception, Identity, and American Screen Performance
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781477328507
Pub Date: January 16th, 2024
Format: Hardcover
272 Pages
A revisionist history of Method acting that connects the popular reception of “methodness” to entrenched understandings of screen performance still dominating American film discourse today.
Mainstream Maverick
John Hughes and New Hollywood Cinema
Price: $50.00
ISBN: 9781477321294
Pub Date: September 1st, 2020
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
The first scholarly book on John Hughes examines Hollywood's complex relationship with genre, the role of the auteur in commercial cinema, and the legacy of favorites such as Sixteen Candles and Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
Animated Personalities
Cartoon Characters and Stardom in American Theatrical Shorts
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781477317440
Pub Date: March 1st, 2019
Format: Paperback
326 Pages
Broadening the field of star studies to include animation, this pioneering book makes the case that iconic cartoon characters, such as Mickey Mouse, are legitimate cinematic stars, just as popular human actors are.
The Many Cinemas of Michael Curtiz
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781477315552
Pub Date: July 2nd, 2018
Format: Paperback
352 Pages
Leading film studies scholars explore the astonishing range of Michael Curtiz, the most prolific director of studio-era Hollywood, whose nearly one hundred films include Casablanca, White Christmas, and Mildred Pierce.
Red Hot Mama
The Life of Sophie Tucker
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 9781477312360
Pub Date: April 15th, 2018
Format: Hardcover
300 Pages
This entertaining biography of the “Last of the Red Hot Mamas” reveals how Sophie Tucker became one of the most powerful women in show business, blazing a trail for performers such as Judy Garland, Carol Channing, and Bette Midler.
Rebellious Bodies
Stardom, Citizenship, and the New Body Politics
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781477311813
Pub Date: March 28th, 2017
Format: Paperback
248 Pages
Exploring the body politics surrounding stars Melissa McCarthy, Gabourey Sidibe, Peter Dinklage, Danny Trejo, Betty White, and Laverne Cox, this book reveals how non-normative celebrity bodies address cultural anxieties about pressing social and political issues.
Trying to Get Over
African American Directors after Blaxploitation, 1977-1986
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 9781477309087
Pub Date: March 22nd, 2016
Format: Paperback
287 Pages
This groundbreaking text focuses on the post-blaxploitation era of American filmmaking and illuminates contributions of directors who, although largely unrecognized, have shaped popular culture over the past quarter century.
Independent Stardom
Freelance Women in the Hollywood Studio System
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781477307816
Pub Date: January 4th, 2016
Format: Paperback
236 Pages
Bringing to light an often-ignored aspect of Hollywood studio system history, this book focuses on female stars who broke the mold of a male-dominated, often manipulative industry to dictate the path of their own careers through freelancing.
Ida Lupino, Forgotten Auteur
From Film Noir to the Director's Chair
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781477330654
Pub Date: December 10th, 2024
Format: Hardcover
240 Pages
American Twilight
The Cinema of Tobe Hooper
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781477329467
Pub Date: February 6th, 2024
Format: Paperback
312 Pages
Imagining the Method
Reception, Identity, and American Screen Performance
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781477328507
Pub Date: January 16th, 2024
Format: Hardcover
272 Pages
Mainstream Maverick
John Hughes and New Hollywood Cinema
Price: $50.00
ISBN: 9781477321294
Pub Date: September 1st, 2020
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
Animated Personalities
Cartoon Characters and Stardom in American Theatrical Shorts
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781477317440
Pub Date: March 1st, 2019
Format: Paperback
326 Pages
The Many Cinemas of Michael Curtiz
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781477315552
Pub Date: July 2nd, 2018
Format: Paperback
352 Pages
Red Hot Mama
The Life of Sophie Tucker
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 9781477312360
Pub Date: April 15th, 2018
Format: Hardcover
300 Pages
Rebellious Bodies
Stardom, Citizenship, and the New Body Politics
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781477311813
Pub Date: March 28th, 2017
Format: Paperback
248 Pages
Trying to Get Over
African American Directors after Blaxploitation, 1977-1986
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 9781477309087
Pub Date: March 22nd, 2016
Format: Paperback
287 Pages
Independent Stardom
Freelance Women in the Hollywood Studio System
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781477307816
Pub Date: January 4th, 2016
Format: Paperback
236 Pages