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"Reel Terror is a love letter to the wildly popular yet still misunderstood genre that churns out blockbusters and cult classics year after year. ... More

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For years, stage plays have provided a rich source of inspiration for the film industry. Yet there hasn't been a book that has adequately addressed ... More

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Brings to (undead) life in full-color a fresh new spin on the classic horror monsters like Dracula, Frankenstein, the Mummy, Werewolf, and the ... More

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Sixty years after its release, Singin' in the Rain (1951) remains one of the best loved films ever made. Yet despite dazzling success with the public ... More

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After the 1973 success of American Graffiti, filmmaker George Lucas made the fateful decision to pursue a longtime dream project: a space fantasy ... More

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Do the pleasures of horror movies really begin and end in sadism? So the public discussion of film assumes, and so film theory claims. Carol Clover ... More

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"Star Wars" was released in 1977 and went on to earn almost $775 million at the worldwide box office. It would change film making forever. Published ... More

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Reveals how the project originated and how it was brought to fruition through the efforts of two great movie directors.

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A definitive survey of the most popular and enduring of Hollywood's forms, the Western.

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Reprinted on the eve of the long-awaited sequel Fantasia 2000, this is the definitive book on the Walt Disney Studio's most ambitious masterpiece. ... More

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This movie, co-produced with Fine Line Features, was originally intended for the small screen, but the enthusiastic critical response, first at ... More

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Loaded with steamy stills and many never-before-published studio shots, here is a sweeping, impressionistic look at the erotic element in motion ... More

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Sophisticated and engaging analysis of a box-office smash

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Few movies inspire the devotion of Douglas Sirk's 1959 drama "Imitation of Life"--an irresistible story of two single mothers raising daughters ... More

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Citizen Kane's reputation as one of the greatest films of all time is matched only by the accumulation of critical commentary that surrounds it. What ... More

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From the slasher icons of Jason, Freddy, and Leatherface and the slick horror of "Alien," "Scream," and "The Ring" to the cult classics of "Dracula," ... More

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From Victor Frankenstein to Dr. Moreau to Doc Brown in "Back to the Future," the scientist has been a puzzling, fascinating, and threatening presence ... More

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Paul Schrader was in meltdown in 1972. Drinking heavily, living in his car, he was hospitalised with a gastric ulcer. There he read about Arthur ... More

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At the Academy Awards Ceremony of 1967, "In the Heat of the Night" took the Best Picture Oscar. It won out of a list of five nominees that also ... More

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"Anna Dawson feels that The Matrix is far more substantial than it first looks and her enthusiasm for the film is not only valuable but ultimately ... More

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Joel and Ethan Coen make up one of the most original and unconventional movie-making partnerships to come out of America at the end of the 20th ... More

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Film: the Key Concepts presents a coherent, clear and exciting overview of film theory for beginning readers.

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