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Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood (2021)
by Robert S. Birchard and Cecilia DeMille Presley
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Subject: Director > Cecil B. DeMille
Joan Crawford (2021)
The Essential Biography
by Lawrence J. Quirk and William Schoell
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Subject: Actress > Joan Crawford
Henry Fonda and Jane Fonda (2014)
Like Father Like Daughter
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Subject: Actor > Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda
Jimmy Stewart (2013)
The Truth Behind the Legend
by Michael Munn
Publisher: Skyhorse
Subject: Actor > James Stewart
Raoul Walsh (2011)
The True Adventures of Hollywood's Legendary Director
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Subject: Director > Raoul Walsh
Joan Crawford (2011)
The Enduring Star
by Peter Cowie
Publisher: Rizzoli Universe
Subject: Actress > Joan Crawford
A Siegel Film (1996)
An Autobiography
by Don Siegel
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Subject: Director > Don Siegel
Race in American Film (2017)
Voices and Visions That Shaped a Nation
Dir. Daniel Bernardi and Michael Green
Publisher: Greenwood
Subject: Countries > United States
Encyclopedia of American Film Serials (2017)
by Geoff Mayer
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Countries > United States
The Fifties, Transforming the Screen 1950–1959 (2003)
History of Amarican cinema vol.7
by Peter Lev
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: History of Cinema
The Sixties, 1960-1969 (2003)
History of American Cinema vol.8
by Paul Monaco
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: History of Cinema
A New Pot of Gold, 1980-1989 (2002)
History of American Cinema vol.10
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: History of Cinema
Lost Illusions, 1970-1979 (2002)
History of the American Cinema vol.9
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: History of Cinema
The Screwball Comedy Films (2001)
A History and Filmography, 1934-1942
by Duane Byrge and Robert Milton Miller
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Boom & Bust, American Cinema in the 1940s (1999)
History of American Cinema vol.6
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: History of Cinema
The Talkies 1926-1931 (1999)
History of American Cinema vol.4
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: History of Cinema
An Evening's Entertainment (1994)
History of American Cinema vol.3
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Transformation of Cinema 1907-1915 (1994)
History of the American Cinema vol.2
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
The Emergence of Cinema (1994)
History of the American Cinema vol.1
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Queer Cinema in America (2024)
An Encyclopedia of LGBTQ Films, Characters, and Stories
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: On Films > Guides and dictionaries
Historical Dictionary of American Cinema (2021)
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Subject: Countries > United States
The Name Below the Title (2018)
65 Classic Movie Character Actors From Hollywood's Golden Age
Publisher: Independant
Subject: On Films > Guides and dictionaries
Fifty Hollywood Directors (2014)
Dir. Suzanne Leonard and Yvonne Tasker
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: On Films > Guides and dictionaries
Hollywood Stunt Performers, 1910s–1970s (2014)
A Biographical Dictionary
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Technique > Special effects
Feature Films, 1940–1949 (2009)
A United States Filmography
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: On Films > Per period
Feature Films, 1950–1959 (2009)
A United States Filmography
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: On Films > Per period
Journeys of Desire (2006)
Dir. Alastair Phillips and Ginette Vincendeau
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Subject: On Films > Guides and dictionaries
African American Films Through 1959 (2005)
A Comprehensive, Illustrated Filmography
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Countries > United States
Comedy Quotes from the Movies (2001)
Over 4,000 Bits of Humorous Dialogue from All Film Genres, Topically Arranged and Indexed
by Larry Langman and Paul Gold
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: On Films > Lines and dialogues
The Last Kings of Hollywood (2026)
Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg―and the Battle for the Soul of American Cinema
by Paul Fischer
Publisher: Celadon Books
Subject: Director > Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg
Hollywood Haunts The World (2025)
An Investigation into the Cinema of Occulted Taboos
Publisher: Headpress
Subject: Sociology
Screening American Independent Film (2023)
Dir. Justin Wyatt and W.D. Phillips
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Independent cinema
A Silent Scream (2022)
An Approach to «King Kong» and the Evolution of the Contemporary American Imaginary
Publisher: Peter Lang
Darkly Perfect World (2020)
Colonial Adventure, Postmodernism, and American Noir
by Stanley Orr
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
American Eccentric Cinema (2020)
by Kim Wilkins
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Countries > United States
Searching for New Frontiers (2018)
Hollywood Films in the 1960s
by Rick Worland
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Subject: On Films > Per period
Black Children in Hollywood Cinema (2017)
Cast in Shadow
by Debbie Olson
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Countries > United States
Intersecting Film, Music, and Queerness (2017)
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Countries > United States
The "Disguised" Political Film in Contemporary Hollywood (2016)
A Genre's Construction
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Genre > All Genres
Envisioning Black Feminist Voodoo Aesthetics (2016)
African Spirituality in American Cinema
Publisher: Lexington Books
Subject: Sociology
South Asians on the U.S. Screen (2016)
Just Like Everyone Else?
Publisher: Lexington Books
Subject: Sociology
Baudrillard, Youth, and American Film (2016)
Fatal Theory and Education
by Kip Kline
Publisher: Lexington Books
Subject: Sociology
Film Theory and Contemporary Hollywood Movies (2009)
Dir. Warren Buckland
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Theory
Science Fiction America (2005)
Essays on SF Cinema
Dir. David J. Hogan
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > Science Fiction
Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan . . . and Beyond (2003)
A Revised and Expanded Edition of the Classic Text
by Robin Wood
Publisher: Columbia University Press
The Hollywood Social Problem Film (1981)
Madness, despair, and politics from the Depression to the fifties
by Peter Roffman and Jim Purdy
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Countries > United States
The Celluloid Weapon (1972)
Social comment in the American film
Publisher: Beacon Press
Subject: Countries > United States
Pre-Code Essentials (2025)
Must-See Cinema from Hollywood's Untamed Era, 1930-1934
by Kim Luperi and Danny Reid
Publisher: Running Press
Subject: On Films > Per period
The American West on Film (2024)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
The 1960s on Film (2024)
by Jim Willis and Mark Miller
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: On Films > Per period
Becoming Nick and Nora (2023)
The Thin Man and the Films of William Powell and Myrna Loy
Publisher: Applause Books
Subject: One Film > The Thin Man
Film Firsts (2014)
The 25 Movies That Created Contemporary American Cinema
by Ethan Alter
Publisher: Praeger
Subject: On Films > Film selections
Fifty Key American Films (2009)
Dir. John White and Sabine Haenni
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Countries > United States
Going Steady (1994)
by Pauline Kael
Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
Subject: Countries > United States
Movie Love (1991)
Complete Reviews, 1988-1991
by Pauline Kael
Publisher: Dutton
Subject: Countries > United States
Midnight Movies (1991)
by J. Hoberman and Jonathan Rosenbaum
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Subject: Countries > United States
Reeling (1977)
Film Writings 1972-1975
by Pauline Kael
Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
Subject: Countries > United States
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (1973)
by Pauline Kael
Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
Subject: Countries > United States
The Oxford Handbook of American Film History (2025)
Dir. Jon Lewis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Countries > United States
American Disaster Movies of the 1970s (2025)
Crisis, Spectacle and Modernity
by Scott Freer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Genre > Disaster films
The American Blockbuster (2025)
Movies That Defined Their Generations
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Countries > United States
The American Film in the Crisis of Confidence (2025)
Hollywood Malaise, 1976-1983
Publisher: Lexington Books
Subject: Countries > United States
The Routledge Companion to American Film History (2025)
Dir. Pamela Robertson Wojcik and Paula J. Massood
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: History of Cinema
Storytelling in Motion (2024)
Cinematic Choreography and the Film Musical
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Wounded Masculinity and the Search for (Father) Self in American Film (2023)
by Susan Mackey-Kallis and Brian Johnston
Publisher: Lexington Books
Subject: Sociology
Diseased Cinema (2023)
Plagues, Pandemics and Zombies in American Movies
by Robert Alpert, Merle Eisenberg and Lee Mordechai
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
American Rivals of James Bond (2023)
Publisher: McFarland & Co
The Oxford Handbook of the Hollywood Musical (2022)
Dir. Dominic Broomfield-McHugh
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Youth and Suicide in American Cinema (2022)
Context, Causes, and Consequences
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Sociology
A Companion to American Indie Film (2022)
Dir. Geoff King
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Subject: Genre > Independent cinema
Triumph over Containment (2021)
American Film in the 1950s
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Subject: On Films > Per period
Resetting the Scene (2021)
Classical Hollywood Revisited
Dir. Philippa Gates and Katherine Spring
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Subject: Countries > United States
The Boxing Film (2020)
A Cultural and Transmedia History
by Travis Vogan
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Subject: Countries > United States
American Blockbuster (2020)
Movies, Technology, and Wonder
Publisher: Duke University Press
Subject: Countries > United States
Film Directors and Emotion (2020)
An Affective Turn in Contemporary American Cinema
by Darragh Greene and Graham Price
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Sociology
Film History Through Trade Journal Art, 1916–1920 (2020)
by Jeff Codori
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Silent Cinema
A Century in Uniform (2020)
Military Women in American Films
by Stacy Fowler and Deborah A. Deacon
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: On Films > Characters
US Youth Films and Popular Music (2019)
Identity, Genre, and Musical Agency
by Tim McNelis
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Countries > United States
When the Movies Mattered (2019)
The New Hollywood Revisited
Dir. Jonathan Kirshner and Jon Lewis
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Subject: Countries > United States
American Film (2019)
A History
by Jon Lewis
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co
Subject: Countries > United States
The Contemporary Western (2019)
An American Genre Post-9/11
by John White
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Post-Fordist Cinema (2019)
Hollywood Auteurs and the Corporate Counterculture
by Jeff Menne
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Countries > United States
Hollywood Harmony (2018)
Musical Wonder and the Sound of Cinema
by Frank Lehman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Cold War Film Genres (2018)
Dir. Homer B. Pettey
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Genre > All Genres
The Birth of the American Horror Film (2018)
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: History of Cinema
Screening Enlightenment (2017)
Hollywood and the Cultural Reconstruction of Defeated Japan
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Subject: Countries > United States
André Bazin, the Critic as Thinker (2017)
American Cinema from Early Chaplin to the Late 1950s
by André Bazin and R.J. Cardullo
Publisher: Brill
Subject: Countries > United States
American Cinema in the Shadow of 9/11 (2016)
Dir. Terence McSweeney
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Sociology
Fantasies of Neglect (2016)
Imagining the Urban Child in American Film and Fiction
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Subject: Sociology
Screening the Male (2016)
Exploring Masculinities in the Hollywood Cinema
Dir. Steve Cohan and Ina Rae Hark
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Sociology
Hollywood Melodrama and the New Deal (2016)
Public Daydreams
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Countries > United States
Girls Will Be Boys (2016)
Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934
by Laura Horak
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Subject: Sociology
Gender, Ethnicity and Sexuality in Contemporary American Film (2016)
by Jude Davies and Carol R. Smith
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Sociology
American Gothic Culture (2016)
An Edinburgh Companion
Dir. Joel Faflak and Jason Haslam
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
American Film History (2015)
Selected Readings, Origins to 1960
Dir. Cynthia Lucia, Roy Grundmann and Art Simon
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Subject: History of Cinema
Uplift Cinema (2015)
The Emergence of African American Film and the Possibility of Black Modernity
Publisher: Duke University Press
Subject: Countries > United States
The American Film History Reader (2014)
Dir. Jon Lewis and Eric Smoodin
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Countries > United States
The 'War on Terror' and American Film (2014)
9/11 Frames Per Second
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Sociology
Special Affects (2014)
Cinema, Animation and the Translation of Consumer Culture
by Eric Jenkins
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Theory
The Transatlantic Gaze (2014)
Italian Cinema, American Film
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Selling the Splat Pack (2014)
The DVD Revolution and the American Horror Film
by Mark Bernard
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Hollywood Puzzle Films (2014)
Dir. Warren Buckland
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Countries > United States
Making Cinelandia (2014)
American Films and Mexican Film Culture before the Golden Age
Publisher: Duke University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
I Do and I Don't (2014)
A History of Marriage in the Movies
Publisher: Vintage Books
Subject: Sociology
America Is Elsewhere (2013)
The Noir Tradition in the Age of Consumer Culture
by Erik Dussere
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Happy Endings in Hollywood Cinema (2013)
Cliché, Convention and the Final Couple
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Countries > United States
Knockout (2013)
The Boxer and Boxing in American Cinema
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Countries > United States
Millennial Masculinity (2012)
Men in Contemporary American Cinema
Dir. Timothy Shary
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Subject: Sociology
Hollywood's Last Golden Age (2012)
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Subject: Countries > United States
Europe et Hollywood à l'écran (2012)
Regards croisés
Publisher: Michel Houdiard
(in French and English)
Subject: Sociology
American Politics in Hollywood Film (2011)
by Ian Scott
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Countries > United States
Screening Nostalgia (2011)
Populuxe Props and Technicolor Aesthetics in Contemporary American Film
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Subject: Sociology
Hard Hats, Rednecks, and Macho Men (2009)
Class in 1970s American Cinema
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Countries > United States
Terrorism in American Cinema (2009)
An Analytical Filmography, 1960–2008
by Robert Cettl
Publisher: McFarland & Co
The Legend Returns and Dies Harder Another Day (2008)
Essays on Film Series
Dir. Jennifer Forrest
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Countries > United States
The Asian Influence on Hollywood Action Films (2008)
Publisher: McFarland & Co
The Oxford Companion to the American Musical (2008)
Theatre, Film, and Television
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Looking Past the Screen (2007)
Case Studies in American Film History and Method
Dir. Jon Lewis and Eric Smoodin
Publisher: Duke University Press
Subject: Countries > United States
The Persistence of Whiteness (2007)
Race and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema
Dir. Daniel Bernardi
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Sociology
Armed Forces (2007)
Masculinity and Sexuality in the American War Film
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
The American Western (2007)
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Hollywood Romantic Comedy (2006)
States of Union, 1934-1965
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Manly Arts (2006)
Masculinity and Nation in Early American Cinema
Publisher: Duke University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
New Brutality Film (2005)
Race and Affect in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema
by Paul Gormley
Publisher: Intellect Books
Subject: Sociology
The Violent Woman (2005)
Femininity, Narrative, and Violence in Contemporary American Cinema
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Subject: Sociology
Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenation (2004)
Spectacular Narratives of Gender and Race, 1903-1967
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Subject: Sociology
Ghouls, Gimmicks, and Gold (2004)
Horror Films and the American Movie Business, 1953-1968
Publisher: Duke University Press
War and Film in America (2003)
Historical and Critical Essays
Dir. Marilyn J. Matelski and Nancy Lynch Street
Publisher: McFarland & Co
The Runaway Bride (2002)
Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1930's
Publisher: Cooper Square Press
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Projecting Paranoia (2002)
Conspiratorial Visions in American Film
by Ray Pratt
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Subject: Sociology
Hollywood Modernism (2001)
Film and Politics in the Age of the New Deal
Publisher: Temple University Press
Subject: Sociology
Melodrama and Modernity (2001)
Early Sensational Cinema and Its Contexts
by Ben Singer
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
American Cinema and Hollywood (2000)
Critical Approaches
Dir. John Hill and Pamela Church Gibson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: History of Cinema
Hitchcock's America (1999)
Dir. Jonathan Freedman and Richard H. Millington
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Director > Alfred Hitchcock
Differences in the Dark (1998)
American Movies and English Theater
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
The New American Cinema (1998)
Dir. Jon Lewis
Publisher: Duke University Press
Subject: Countries > United States
Romantic Comedy in Hollywood (1998)
From Lubitsch to Sturges
by James Harvey
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
High Contrast (1997)
Race and Gender in Contemporary Hollywood Films
Publisher: Duke University Press
Subject: Sociology
The Road Movie Book (1997)
Dir. Steven Cohan and Ina Rae Hark
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Countries > United States
Screening Space (1997)
The American Science Fiction Film
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Subject: Genre > Science Fiction
Creating the Couple (1993)
Love, Marriage, and Hollywood Performance
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Subject: Sociology
Screen Memories (1993)
Hollywood Cinema on the Psychoanalytic Couch
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Sociology
All that Hollywood Allows (1991)
Re-reading Gender in 1950s Melodrama
by Jackie Byars
Publisher: Routledge
From Hanoi to Hollywood (1990)
The Vietnam War in American Film
Dir. Linda Dittmar and Gene Michaud
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
A Certain Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema, 1930-1980 (1985)
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Subject: Countries > United States
The Movie Brats (1979)
How the Film Generation Took over Hollywood
by Michael Pye and Linda Myles
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
Subject: Countries > United States
John Ford (1992)
Publisher: University of California Press
Hollywood High (2025)
A Totally Epic, Way Opinionated History of Teen Movies
by Bruce Handy
Publisher: Avid Reader Press
Subject: Countries > United States
The Seventies (2021)
The Decade That Changed American Film Forever
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Subject: On Films > Per period
The Hollywood Renaissance (2018)
Revisiting American Cinema's Most Celebrated Era
Dir. Peter Kramer and Yannis Tzioumakis
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: History of Cinema
Pictures at a Revolution (2009)
Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood
by Mark Harris
Publisher: Penguin Books
Subject: Countries > United States
Screen Ages (2015)
A Survey of American Cinema
by John Alberti
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Countries > United States
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (1997)
by Martin Scorsese and Michael Henry Wilson
Publisher: Hyperion
Subject: Director > Martin Scorsese
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