"A love letter to the city of Philadelphia, and the remarkable behind-the-scenes story of the creation of a timeless and beloved piece of American pop culture: Rocky. The greatest underdog story in...

"For movie and music lovers alike, this first definitive film score guide covers the history behind 400 iconic global film scores and their composers, from early 1930s Hollywood to the present day"--...

"The first major biography of Martin Scorsese, America's greatest modern filmmaker, a book as stylish and audacious as the director's movies, drawing on previously unseen sources, original research,...

The bestselling and essential movie reference book fully revised and updated for 2026.[Bokinfo]

Now in paperback, the fourth—and final—collection of Roger Ebert’s essays, comprising sixty-two reviews of films ranging from the silent era to the recent past. No film critic has ever been as...

A kaleidoscopic memoir by acclaimed filmmaker Abel Ferrara, director of the cult classic filmsBadLieutenant,King of New York, and Dangerous Game, offering an unflinching look at his life, career, and...

"Burroughs's voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American."--Joan Didion The layered, idiosyncratic screenplay about one of America's most notorious gangsters...

From the back At the end of the Second World War, when allied troops liverated the Nazi death camps, journalists and photographers came to document the horrors of the most highly organized genocide...

This collection of essays by scholars, critics, and directors examines August Strindberg's impact on 20th-century theater, exploring such as aspects as historical context; Strindberg's modernistic,...

How public radio has perpetuated racial inequality since its founding--and how journalists of color are challenging white dominance in the workplace and on the public airwaves National Public Radio...

Pp. 170-184, "Les Juifs: Antisémitisme et conjoncture", describe and comment on the films produced in France between 1936-44 depicting Jewish characters. States that the French Jews are presented as...

Entre 1967 y 1997, George Steiner escribió para The New Yorker más de 150 artículos y reseñas sobre gran variedad de asuntos, haciendo que ideas difíciles y temas poco familiares resultaran...

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In this original study, Scharf investigates issues of national identity in films of the New German Cinema. Using a cultural studies analysis, Scharf argues that the conflict between this generation...

Der schön gedruckte, mit schwarz-weißen Originalfotos der Zeit und farbigen Standfotos aus dem Spielfilm der 3-teiligen TV-Biografie (ARD ab 9. Mai 2005) reichlich ausgestattete Band beruht...

Until now, Hollywood's political history has been dominated by a steady stream of films and memoirs decrying the nightmare of the Red Scare. But Ronald and Allis Radosh show that the real drama of...

In turn-of-the-century Vienna, Karl Kraus created a bold new style of media criticism, penning incisive satires that elicited both admiration and outrage. Kraus's spectacularly hostile critiques...

Based on interviews with more than 250 people associated with the show--stars, producers, hosts, and others--this book provides an intimate backstage portrait of the comedy program, from its...