Horror Film Reader
Edited by Alain Silver and James Ursini

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These essays offer a broad overview of the horror film genre, from the silent screen to Scream 3, demonstrating how it remains defiantly, frighteningly alive.
See the publisher website: Limelight
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A Guide to Ultra-Low-Budget Filmmaking
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De Niro (2009)
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(in English, French and German)
Subject: Actor > Robert De Niro
Elizabeth Taylor (2008)
by James Ursini
(in English, French and German)
Subject: Actress > Elizabeth Taylor
Mae West (2008)
by Dominique Mainon and James Ursini
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Marlène Dietrich (2007)
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Whatever Happened to Robert Aldrich? (2004)
His Life and His Films
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