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"Immersion" is everywhere in entertainment today. But this promise didn't start with digital media - it was over two hundred years ago that Georgian London became the world centre of such immersive spectacles as the Leicester Square Panorama, the...

Post-war cinema saw a rapid rise in the production of B-movies - low-budget genre films dealing with such subjects as horror, science fiction, juvenile delinquency and beatniks, bad girls and women in prison, bikers, gangsters, jungle terror, mondo, drug...

Offers a fresh look at American and Italian cinema in the postwar period.The Celluloid Atlantic changes the way we look at American and Italian cinema in the postwar period. In the thirty years following World War II, American and Italian film industries...

Dispels the idea that postwar British comedies were apolitical, arguing instead that they presented subversive, iconoclastic, queer experiments in living for a country that was rebuilding and reimagining itself after years of conflict.Eccentric Laughter...

At 36, Pat Treuer walked away from a high-paying corporate job-complete with titles, bonuses, and skyline views-to chase a dream with no roadmap: stand-up comedy. By 42, after launching a million-dollar pandemic-era comedy business and sinking every cent...

In the wake of the unprecedented success of the Star Wars franchise and Excalibur, famous producing team, Ted Mann and Rob Silverman began assembling a team of the most talented filmmakers in existence along with an experienced cast of screen legends and...

For 43 years, Eddie Murphy has dazzled audiences of all sorts whether it's edgy comedies (Bowfinger), cherished remakes (The Nutty Professor), family films (Shrek), or biopics (Dolemite is My Name). Pop culture author Mat Bradley-Tschirgi (The Films of...

A seductive journey into horror based on "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde". JACKIE, (Gabriella Hall) a lonely and shy telemarketer in her late twenties, gets a phone call informing her that her uncle has just passed away and she is the only...

Classic Italian film poster art is renowned as being among the most innovative, creative and dynamic of its kind. From the post-war period through to early 1990s, Italian artists consistently produced posters with sumptuously stunning designs and...

Reality, Magic, and Other Lies: Fairy-Tale Film Truths explores connections and discontinuities between lies and truths in fairy-tale films to directly address the current politics of fairy tale and reality. Since the Enlightenment, notions of magic and...

Martial Culture, Silver Screen analyzes war movies, one of the most popular genres in American cinema, for what they reveal about the narratives and ideologies that shape U.S. national identity. Edited by Matthew Christopher Hulbert and Matthew E...

Examining how horror and science fiction films from the 1950s to the present invent and explore fictional "us-versus-them" scenarios, this book analyzes how such films employ allegory and/or satire to interrogate the causes and consequences of ...

An emerging interest in a British East and Southeast Asian identity after decades of political and social exclusion has coincided with periods of economic and political challenges in the UK.

Standing at the intersection of criminology and philosophy, this book demonstrates the ways in which mythic movies and television series can provide understanding of actual crimes and social harms.

Filmic constructions of war heroism have a profound impact on public perceptions of conflicts. Here, contributors examine the ways motifs of gender and heroism in war films are used to justify ideological positions, shape the understanding of the...

In film, Men are good and Monsters are bad. In this book, Combe and Boyle consider the monstrous body as a metaphor for the cultural body and regard gendered behavior as a matter of performativity. Taken together, these two identity positions, manliness...

In a world where stars fade as swiftly as they rise, there's a luminous beacon that has endured, flickering with unmatched brilliance across six remarkable decades. Today, as the sun rises to greet another April day, we join hands and hearts to celebrate...

This issue delves into the rise of Bruceploitation and "Martial Mania: The Bruce Lee Clone Phenomenon," with cover art by Russell Fox.Featured articles:Imitating the Dragon by Venoms5 (Brian Bankston): A look at Bruce Lee's lasting influence, despite...

After a century of reinvention and, frequently, reinterpretation, Western movies continue to contribute to the cultural understanding of the United States. And Western archetypes remain as important emblems of the American experience, relating a...

Starring Tom Cruise examines how Tom Cruise's star image moves across genres and forms as a type of commercial product that offers viewers certain pleasures and expectations. Cruise reads as an action hero and romantic lead yet finds himself in...

SAVING DISNEY DREAMSWhen Walt Disney took up residence in California, he did some of his first animation work in his uncle Robert's ramshackle garage. He soon moved to better quarters, the garage left behind, forgotten.Until, six decades later, Disney...

How do the suspense films of Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, and Carol Reed allow us special insight into the popular mentality of their contemporaries--contemporaries who went to war against the forces of Adolf Hitler? How did midcentury films that...

THE SHARK IS ROARING:THE STORY OF JAWS: THE REVENGE  Jaws the Revenge is known as the film that killed off the Jaws franchise. But after 35 years, what is the legacy of this much-maligned aquatic horror?  The Shark Is Roaring: The Story of...

“All that anyone needs to imitate me is two soft-boiled eggs and a bedroom voice.” - Peter LorreIn the 1940s, no movie show was complete without a cartoon, and no cartoon was complete without an established character like Bugs Bunny or a...

“All that anyone needs to imitate me is two soft-boiled eggs and a bedroom voice.” - Peter LorreIn the 1940s, no movie show was complete without a cartoon, and no cartoon was complete without an established character like Bugs Bunny or a...

In 1996, a movie came along that changed the face of horror films forever. Initial signs indicated Scream being a flop upon its release in theaters, but it quickly became a word-of-mouth phenomenon spawning multiple sequels, a television series, and...

Infamous filmmaker Uwe Boll tells the incredible story of his life and great success as a self-made man in Uwe Boll Raw: A Memoir, his first book in English.Born in Wermelskirchen, Germany in 1965 as the son of a chemical technician, Uwe Boll hardly had...

This biography traces Josh Binney's unusual film and stage career, which ranged from praise for his direction in Boston of the play Pinocchio to imprisonment in Montana for movie investment fraud. Particular attention is paid to his work in the 1940s for...

The Legendary Eastern Heroes magazine is back! The No 1 Hong kong film magazine has been relaunched and is back as a bi-monthly magazine.featuring all your favorite stars. Bruce Lee, Sammo Hung, Jackie Chan, Donnie Yen, Old school, later night Cinema,...

The Legendary Eastern Heroes magazine is back! The No 1 Hong kong film magazine has been relaunched and is back as a bi-monthly magazine.Issue 2 is bumper packed with 96 pagesfeaturing all your favorite stars. Bruce Li, Cynthia Rothrock Jackie Chan,...

Bruce Lee Game of Death (Landscape Edition)This is a revised edition of the A4 Bruce Lee Game of Death Book.The revised version has some updated colour photographs in several sections and a different layout and a higher photographic resolution The Game...

Fist of Fury Vol 2. In the second volume, I once again compiled a selection of Bruce lee affectionate's thoughts on how Fist of Fury impacted them as a movie when it first screened with a showcase from each contributor, and some of their rare memorabilia...

Fist of Fury Vol 1. In the first volume, I compiled a selection of Bruce lee affectionate's thoughts on how Fist of Fury impacted them as a movie when it first screened with a showcase from each contributor of some of their rare memorabilia showcased...

Eastern Heroes Vol 2 No.2SHAW BROTHERS SPECIALINSIDE THIS ISSUELU FENG INTERVIEW THE LETHAL FORCE BEHIND THE VENOMS LEGACY INTERVIEW BY Robert Jefferson & Simon PritchardTHE RISE OF THE SHAW BROTHER STUDIOSODE TO GALLERYAlan Donkin Look at...

Between March and September of 1951, three very different films launched a new Hollywood genre, the alien invasion feature, defining our cultural expectations for extraterrestrial contact in the process. Where The Thing from Another World gives us...

Between March and September of 1951, three very different films launched a new Hollywood genre, the alien invasion feature, defining our cultural expectations for extraterrestrial contact in the process. Where The Thing from Another World gives us...

THE SHARK IS ROARING:THE STORY OF JAWS: THE REVENGE  Jaws the Revenge is known as the film that killed off the Jaws franchise. But after 35 years, what is the legacy of this much-maligned aquatic horror?  The Shark Is Roaring: The Story of...

In 1973, The Exorcist shocked the world and became the most popular and successful horror film ever made.In 1977, Exorcist II: The Heretic shocked the world in a very different way...becoming a laughing stock.How did it happen? Why did a major motion...

The Warner Bros. western series Lawman starring John Russell, Peter Brown, and Peggie Castle originally broadcast on ABC-TV airing 156 new episodes between September 1958 and June 1962. As played by steel-eyed John Russell, Dan Troop is a no-nonsense...

 The Full Story of the Greatest Art Deco Horror/Comedy/Romance/Musicals Ever Made!*Winner of the Rondo Award*In The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) and its sequel, Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972), horror great Vincent Price starred as vaudevillian...

A Remembrance of Things Past ........... The joey ZoneStephen Jones, The Art of Pulp Horror.Stories with Soul   ........... Géza A. G. ReillyDarrell Schweitzer, The Mysteries of the Faceless King and The Last Heretic.A Few Drops of Claret ...

A freewheeling, nonlinear exploration of the performing duo and their decade-long collaboration from 1946 to 1956.

"Beep, beep!"In 1949, director Chuck Jones and writer Mike Maltese made history with "Fast and Furry-ous," the first Looney Tunes cartoon starring the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote.75 years later, these beloved characters have become bona fide cultural...

The Halloween Society, founded in the late 1980s, transformed monster masks from disposable products to bonafide works of art. Now its colorful history and dramatic influence is documented in Ron Magid's two-volume memoir, The Halloween Society...

The Halloween Society, founded in the late 1980s, transformed monster masks from disposable products to bonafide works of art. Now its colorful history and dramatic influence is documented in Ron Magid's two-volume memoir, The Halloween Society...