How--and why--do we focus on those individuals we come to call stars? How does stardom both reflect and mask the person behind it? How have the image of stardom and our stars' images changed over the past hundred years? What does celebrity mean if people can become famous simply…
The diaries of Richard Burton (born Richard Walter Jenkins), written between 1939 and 1983 - throughout his career and the years of his marriages to Elizabeth Taylor
In the biggest edition yet, Paul Donnelley has once again added more than 100 new entries and revised numerous existing ones.
Raised in Venezuela under the aegis of the cultish Children of God, 18-year-old River Phoenix took Hollywood by storm when he starred in Stand By Me, and soon won an Oscar nomination for Running on Empty. Praised by his peers as the most talented actor of his generation, River c…
Om den amerikanske filmskuespiller Buster Keaton (1895-1966)
A collection of shocking clashes and controversies from Hollywood's golden age, featuring notorious personalities
Mae Murray (1885-1965), popularly known as "the girl with the bee-stung lips," was a fiery presence in silent-era Hollywood. Renowned for her classic beauty and charismatic presence, she rocketed to stardom as a dancer in the Ziegfeld Follies, moving across the country to star i…
William Shatner's personal tribute to his longtime friend and Star Trek co-star, Leonard Nimoy
Interpretations of Hollywood films of the 1950s and 1960s demonstrate how Cold War homophobia focused on the femme as the lesbian who posed the greatest threat to the nation
At the age of thirteen, Kendrick had already resolved to "keep the crazy inside my head where it belonged." Now she invites readers inside her brain, recounting the absurdities she's experienced on her way to and from the heart of pop culture. From her double life as a middle-sc…
The book focuses on the way various film icons engaged in and defined some major issues of cultural and social concern to America during the 1980s.
Film characters are not supposed to look at the camera, so what happens when they do acknowledge our presence as spectators? This book revaluates these and other fundamental assumptions about the medium by demonstrating that direct address is compatible with - and is in some cas…
Review: "Now in its fifth edition, updated, and with more than 130 new entries--from Judd Apatow to Lena Horne--the classic, beloved film book is better than ever." "For thirty-five years, David Thomson's Biographical Dictionary of Film has been "fiendishly seductive" (Greil Mar…
