Texas Film and Media Studies
Edited by Thomas Schatz
The Texas Film and Media Studies Series covers topics ranging from early and modern cinema to the emerging technologies of hypertext and virtual reality. It focuses primarily on industry practices and critical analyses of media and culture. The series includes books on the various national cinemas, including Hollywood and US independents, the history and theory of television, and current trends toward interactive and immersive forms of communication. Theoretical concerns such as class, gender, race, genre, and reception are also considered.Jim Burr, Acquiring Editor
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Hollywood in San Francisco
Location Shooting and the Aesthetics of Urban Decline
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781477317556
Pub Date: November 14th, 2018
Format: Paperback
360 Pages
This pioneering study of postwar feature films set in San Francisco tracks the transformation of Hollywood filmmaking as location shooting became the dominant production method in an era of urban anxiety.
Connecting The Wire
Race, Space, and Postindustrial Baltimore
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 9781477311776
Pub Date: February 14th, 2017
Format: Paperback
260 Pages
The first comprehensive, season-by-season analysis of the critically acclaimed HBO series The Wire, this book explicates the complex narrative arc of the entire series and its sweeping vision of institutional failure in the postindustrial United States.
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.
The Classical Mexican Cinema
The Poetics of the Exceptional Golden Age Films
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781477308059
Pub Date: September 1st, 2015
Format: Paperback
254 Pages
In one of the first systematic studies of style in Mexican filmmaking, a preeminent film scholar explores the creation of a Golden Age cinema that was uniquely Mexican in its themes, styles, and ideology.
Selling the Silver Bullet
The Lone Ranger and Transmedia Brand Licensing
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 9780292772540
Pub Date: April 15th, 2015
Format: Paperback
331 Pages
Using the Lone Ranger as a case study, this book investigates the transmedia licensing, merchandizing, and brand management of iconic characters from the 1930s through the era of media conglomeration and convergence.
The Dread of Difference
Gender and the Horror Film
Price: $32.95
ISBN: 9780292772458
Pub Date: April 1st, 2015
Format: Paperback
560 Pages
Now updated to include contemporary developments in the horror film genre and the critical thinking about it, Barry Keith Grant’s groundbreaking exploration of the cinema of fear has sold over 8,000 copies.
Indie, Inc.
Miramax and the Transformation of Hollywood in the 1990s
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 9780292754355
Pub Date: May 1st, 2012
Format: Paperback
320 Pages
Pioneering the field of media industry studies, Indie, Inc. explores how Miramax changed the landscape not only of independent filmmaking but of Hollywood itself during the 1990s.
Edna Ferber's Hollywood
American Fictions of Gender, Race, and History
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780292725638
Pub Date: December 1st, 2009
Format: Paperback
351 Pages
A history of the remarkable partnership forged between the author of such classics as Show Boat, Cimarron, and Giant and the Hollywood moguls who brought her often controversial messages to the silver screen.
Cinema of Solitude
A Critical Study of Mexican Film, 1967-1983
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 9780292707955
Pub Date: September 15th, 2009
Format: Paperback
264 Pages
A study of el Nuevo Cine (the New Cinema) and its films presenting alienated characters caught in a painful transition period in which old family, gender, and social roles have ceased to function without being replaced by viable new ones.
Coming Attractions
Reading American Movie Trailers
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 9780292705586
Pub Date: November 1st, 2004
Format: Paperback
308 Pages
Starting from the premise that movie trailers can be considered a film genre, this pioneering book explores the genre’s conventions and offers a primer for reading the rhetoric of movie trailers.
Hollywood in San Francisco
Location Shooting and the Aesthetics of Urban Decline
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781477317556
Pub Date: November 14th, 2018
Format: Paperback
360 Pages
Connecting The Wire
Race, Space, and Postindustrial Baltimore
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 9781477311776
Pub Date: February 14th, 2017
Format: Paperback
260 Pages
Independent Stardom
Freelance Women in the Hollywood Studio System
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781477307816
Pub Date: January 4th, 2016
Format: Paperback
236 Pages
The Classical Mexican Cinema
The Poetics of the Exceptional Golden Age Films
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781477308059
Pub Date: September 1st, 2015
Format: Paperback
254 Pages
Selling the Silver Bullet
The Lone Ranger and Transmedia Brand Licensing
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 9780292772540
Pub Date: April 15th, 2015
Format: Paperback
331 Pages
The Dread of Difference
Gender and the Horror Film
Price: $32.95
ISBN: 9780292772458
Pub Date: April 1st, 2015
Format: Paperback
560 Pages
Indie, Inc.
Miramax and the Transformation of Hollywood in the 1990s
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 9780292754355
Pub Date: May 1st, 2012
Format: Paperback
320 Pages
Edna Ferber's Hollywood
American Fictions of Gender, Race, and History
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780292725638
Pub Date: December 1st, 2009
Format: Paperback
351 Pages
Cinema of Solitude
A Critical Study of Mexican Film, 1967-1983
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 9780292707955
Pub Date: September 15th, 2009
Format: Paperback
264 Pages
Coming Attractions
Reading American Movie Trailers
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 9780292705586
Pub Date: November 1st, 2004
Format: Paperback
308 Pages