In the 2000s, new technologies transformed the experiences of movie-going and movie-making, giving us the first generation of stars to be just as famous on the computer screen as on the silver screen. 'Movie Stars of the 2000s' examines a wide range of Hollywood icons from a tur…
"Examines how American foreign policy and economic interests influenced the portrayal of international terrorism in Hollywood blockbuster films from the time of the Iran hostage crisis to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Defines modern terrorism's relation to the U.S. and its news me…
"An examination of the careers of communist and liberal actors, screenwriters, playwrights, and directors in Hollywood from the late 1920s to the present, this book uses studio and PCA correspondence, FBI files, film and theater reviews, and other sources to reveal how these art…
This book is a study of how popular music has participated in the cinematic construction of gender, with a special focus on the action genre and films that share action cinema's interest in spectacularly violent masculinities
A collection of shocking clashes and controversies from Hollywood's golden age, featuring notorious personalities
This work examines topics such as revisiting racism and cinema; the birth of a (racist) nation cinema; cinema and the maintenance of privilege; and confronting racism and representation; a world apart (from the world of privilege).