University of Illinois Press, September 2013. Trade Paperback. Cultural productions in the Third Reich often served explicit propaganda functions of legitimating racism and glorifying war and militarism. Likewise, the proliferation of domestic and romance films in Nazi Germany also represented an ideological stance. Rather than reinforcing traditional gender role divisions..... More

Rutgers University Press, April 2014. Trade Paperback. Received the Distinction Honor for the 2016 C. Calvin Smith Book Award from the Southern Conference on African American Studies, Inc. In Hollywood, we hear, it's all about the money. It's a ready explanation for why so few black films get made--no crossover..... More

Oxford University Press, USA, October 2013. Trade Paperback. Unique and often startling encounters between music and the moving image in the films of Stanley Kubrick are trademarks of his style; witness the powerful effects of Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra in 2001: A Space Odyssey and of Beethoven's 9th Symphony in..... More

University of Texas Press, December 2002. Trade Paperback. Astaire and Rogers, Tracy and Hepburn. Just the mention of their names evokes the powerful chemistry between these screen couples, which utterly transcended the often formulaic films in which they appeared together. Indeed, watching the synergistic flow of energy between charismatic screen..... More

University of Texas Press, July 2008. Trade Paperback. Authoring a film adaptation of a literary source not only requires a media conversion but also a transformation as a result of the differing dramatic demands of cinema. The most critical central step in this transformation of a literary source to the..... More

Univ Of Minnesota Press, March 2014. Trade Paperback. East Asia largely functions as a single film and media market, but behind it exists a multifaceted world of coproduction crossing linguistic and national borders. In Coproducing Asia, Stephanie DeBoer guides readers through a rich genealogy of regional film and media coproduction..... More

Hansen Publishing Group, LLC, November 2010. Paper Back. Tennessee Williams and Company: His Essential Screen Actors takes a critical look at these eleven actors and their roles, bonded by their sustained artistic and professional association with Williams, specifically the success, and sometimes failure, of their interpretations of his characters for..... More

William Morrow & Company, April 2022. Hardcover. A New York Times bestseller! Celebrated actor, personality, and all-around nerd, Wil Wheaton updates his memoir of collected blog posts with all new material and annotations as he reexamines one of the most interesting lives in Hollywood and fandom--and now for the first..... More

McSweeney's, July 2012. Trade Paperback. For more information, visit McSweeneys.net In the summer of 2009 Miranda July was struggling to write her second screenplay, The Future, when she began to obsessively read the PennySaver classified ads. The iconic Los Angeles newsprint booklet served a computerless demographic?a quickly disappearing group, but..... More

Knopf, May 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - Selma Blair has played many roles: Ingenue in Cruel Intentions. Preppy ice queen in Legally Blonde. Muse to Karl Lagerfeld. Advocate for the multiple sclerosis community. But before all of that, Selma was known best as ... a...... More

University of Georgia Press, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. First/first. Octavo. In dustjacket with slight edgewear. Blue textured paper covered boards with gold lettering. Mildly bruised corners of front board top & bottom. Scattered occasionally with lightly pencilled tick marks and side notes. Tightly bound. [487 pages]. More

Cambridge University Press, November 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. This collection of essays explores the literary and cinematic implications of translating Austen's prose into film. It considers how prose fiction and cinema differ; how mass commercial audiences require changes to script and character; and how continually remade films evoke memories of..... More