As stage and screen artists explore new means to enhance their craft, a new wave of interest in expressive movement and physical improvisation has developed. ...

Republic Studios: Between Poverty Row and the Majors documents the influence and significance of this major B studio. Originally published in 1979, this ...

A Guide to Screenwriting Success provides a comprehensive overview of writing and rewriting a screenplay or teleplay. All aspects of screenwriting, from ...

This book details the fate of an entire art form—the silent cinema3in the United States during the 1930s and how it managed to survive the onslaught ...

Grange covers productions, theories, innovations, and plays from ancient Greece to the Spanish Golden Age. It does not read like a scholarly tome as its ...

Blood, Guns, and Testosterone: Action Films, Audiences, and a Thirst for Violence is a study of the modern action film as a symbolic art of masculinity ...

Breaking Bad: Critical Essays on the Contexts, Politics, Style, and Reception of the Television Series, edited by David P. Pierson, examines the social ...

In American Classic Screen Profiles , editors John C. Tibbetts and James M. Welsh have assembled some of the most significant and memorable profiles written ...

In this memoir, Herbert Coleman describes working on such classics as The Big Clock , Carrie , For Whom the Bell Tolls , and Roman Holiday and with ...

Living History Museums: Undoing History Through Performance examines the performance techniques of Living History Museums, cultural institutions that ...