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• Biographies (11) • Autobiographies (2) • Essays (7) • Films Reviews (1) • Studies (64) • Interviews (1) • Stories (10) • Didactic (1) • Writings (3)
• Biographies (9) • Autobiographies (0) • Essays (6) • Films Reviews (0) • Studies (50) • Interviews (1) • Stories (7) • Didactic (1) • Writings (3)
• Biographies (11 books)(9 books)
Ferocious Ambition (2023)
Joan Crawford's March to Stardom
by Robert Dance
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Actor > Joan Crawford
The Savvy Sphinx (2021)
How Garbo Conquered Hollywood
by Robert Dance
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Actor > Greta Garbo
Robert Taylor (2019)
Male Beauty, Masculinity, and Stardom in Hollywood
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Actor > Robert Taylor
From Madea to Media Mogul (2018)
Theorizing Tyler Perry
Dir. Treaandrea M. Russworm, Samantha N. Sheppard and Karen M. Bowdre
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Director > Tyler Perry
On Sunset Boulevard (2017)
by Ed Sikov
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Director > Billy Wilder
Last Man Standing (2017)
Mort Sahl and the Birth of Modern Comedy
by James Curtis
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Brian de Palma's Split-Screen (2017)
A Life in Film
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Director > Brian de Palma
Douglas Fairbanks and the American Century (2014)
by John C. Tibbetts and James M. Welsh
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Actor > Douglas Fairbanks
Fred Zinnemann and the Cinema of Resistance (2014)
by J. E. Smyth
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Director > Fred Zinnemann
Frank Capra (2011)
The Catastrophe of Success
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Director > Frank Capra
Searching for John Ford (2011)
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Autobiographies (2 books)(0 book)
Iwao Takamoto (2009)
My Life with a Thousand Characters
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Others persons > Iwao Takamoto
Living Life Inside the Lines (2005)
Tales from the Golden Age of Animation
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Others persons > Martha Sigall
• Essays (7 books)(6 books)
Rewatching on the Point of the Cinematic Index (2022)
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Theory
Improvising the Score (2022)
Rethinking Modern Film Music Through Jazz
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Retcon Game (2021)
Retroactive Continuity and the Hyperlinking of America
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Ode to Gen X (2021)
Institutional Cynicism in Stranger Things and 1980s Film
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: One Film > Stranger Things (TV Series)
Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s (2015)
Why Don't They Do It Like They Used To?
by David Roche
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
American Horror Film (2013)
The Genre at the Turn of the Millennium
Dir. Steffen Hantke
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
The South and Film (2008)
Dir. Warren French
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Sociology
• Films Reviews (1 book)(0 book)
Out of the Past (2000)
Adventures in Film Noir
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
(previous edition)
Subject: Genre
• Studies (64 books)(50 books)
Mutants, Androids, and Aliens (2025)
On Being Human in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
The Superhero Blockbuster (2025)
Adaptation, Style, and Meaning
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Film by Design (2024)
The Art of the Movie Poster
Dir. Gary D. Rhodes and Robert Singer
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Hanna-Barbera, the Recorded History (2024)
From Modern Stone Age to Meddling Kids
by Greg Ehrbar
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Copyright Vigilantes (2024)
Intellectual Property and the Hollywood Superhero
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Economics
The Sinful Maternal (2024)
Motherhood in Possession Films
by Lauren Rocha
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Intersecting Aesthetics (2023)
Literary Adaptations and Cinematic Representations of Blackness
Dir. Charlene Regester, Cynthia Baron and Ellen C. Scott
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Sociology
C'Mon, Get Happy (2023)
The Making of Summer Stock
by David Fantle and Tom Johnson
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: One Film > Summer Stock
Cloverfield (2023)
Creatures and Catastrophes in Post-9/11 Cinema
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: One Film > Cloverfield
Starmaker (2023)
David O. Selznick and the Production of Stars in the Hollywood Studio System
by Milan Hain
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Others persons > David O. Selznick
Race and the Animated Bodyscape (2023)
Constructing and Ascribing a Racialized Asian Identity in Avatar and Korra
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: One Film > Avatar: The Last Airbender (TV Series)
After Midnight (2022)
Watchmen After Watchmen
Dir. Drew Morton
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: One Film > Watchmen (TV Series)
The Cinema of Stephanie Rothman (2022)
Radical Acts in Filmmaking
by Alicia Kozma
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Director > Stephanie Rothman
The Golden Age Musicals of Darryl F. Zanuck (2022)
The Gentleman Preferred Blondes
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
The Films of Delmer Daves (2022)
Visions of Progress in Mid-Twentieth-Century America
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Director > Delmer Daves
For No Reason at All (2022)
The Changing Narrative of the First World War in American Film
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
The Films of Fred Schepisi (2021)
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Director > Fred Schepisi
Dis-Orienting Planets (2021)
Racial Representations of Asia in Science Fiction
Dir. Isiah Lavender
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Genre > Science Fiction
Projections of Passing (2021)
Postwar Anxieties and Hollywood Films, 1947-1960
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: On Films > Per period
Next Generation Adaptation (2021)
Spectatorship and Process
Dir. Allen H. Redmon
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Technique > Adaptation
Cold War II (2020)
Hollywood's Renewed Obsession with Russia
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Sociology
See! Hear! Cut! Kill! (2020)
Experiencing Friday the 13th
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: One Film > Friday the 13th
A Portrait of the Auteur as Fanboy (2020)
The Construction of Authorship in Transmedia Franchises
by Anastasia Salter and Mel Stanfill
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Technique > Scriptwriting
Hollywood Hates Hitler! (2020)
Jew-Baiting, Anti-Nazism, and the Senate Investigation Into Warmongering in Motion Pictures
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: History of Cinema
Toxic Masculinity (2020)
Mapping the Monstrous in Our Heroes
Dir. Esther de Dauw and Daniel J. Connell
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Sociology
Troubling Masculinities (2020)
Terror, Gender, and Monstrous Others in American Film Post-9/11
by Glen Donnar
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Sociology
Comics and Adaptation (2020)
Dir. Benoît Mitaine, David Roche and Isabelle Schmitt-Pitiot
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Technique > Adaptation
The Possible South (2020)
Documentary Film and the Limitations of Biraciality
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Genre > Documentary
Truth and Consequences (2019)
Game Shows in Fiction and Film
by Mike Miley
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Sociology
The Hell of War Comes Home (2019)
Imaginative Texts from the Conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Sociology
The Films of Douglas Sirk (2019)
Exquisite Ironies and Magnificent Obsessions
by Tom Ryan
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Director > Douglas Sirk
China in the Mix (2019)
Cinema, Sound, and Popular Culture in the Age of Globalization
by Ying Xiao
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Dining with Madmen (2019)
Fat, Food, and the Environment in 1980s Horror
by Thomas Fahy
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Bumpy Road (2018)
The Making, Flop, and Revival of Two-Lane Blacktop
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: One Film > Two-Lane Blacktop
Panel to the Screen (2018)
Style, American Film, and Comic Books During the Blockbuster Era
by Drew Morton
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Technique > Adaptation
Quentin Tarantino (2018)
Poetics and Politics of Cinematic Metafiction
by David Roche
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Director > Quentin Tarantino
That Was Entertainment (2018)
The Golden Age of the MGM Musical
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Monsters in the Machine (2018)
Science Fiction Film and the Militarization of America After World War II
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Genre > Science Fiction
Music in Disney's Animated Features (2018)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to the Jungle Book
by James Bohn
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Studio > Disney Studios
Magnificent Obsession (2018)
The Outrageous History of Film Buffs, Collectors, Scholars, and Fanatics
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Sociology
The Screen Is Red (2018)
Hollywood, Communism, and the Cold War
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Countries > United States
Chronicle of a Camera (2017)
The Arriflex 35 in North America, 1945-1972
by Norris Pope
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Technique > Cinematography
Vampires and Zombies (2017)
Transcultural Migrations and Transnational Interpretations
Dir. Dorothea Fischer-Hornung and Monika Mueller
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
The Comic Book Film Adaptation (2016)
Exploring Modern Hollywood's Leading Genre
by Liam Burke
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Technique > Adaptation
Superheroes on World Screens (2016)
Dir. Rayna Denison and Rachel Mizsei-Ward
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Stanley Kubrick (2016)
Adapting the Sublime
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Director > Stanley Kubrick
The Joker (2016)
A Serious Study of the Clown Prince of Crime
Dir. Robert Moses Peaslee and Robert G. Weiner
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: On Films > Characters
A Special Relationship (2015)
Britain Comes to Hollywood and Hollywood Comes to Britain
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: History of Cinema
Hip Hop on Film (2015)
Performance Culture, Urban Space, and Genre Transformation in the 1980s
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Sociology
Beyond the Chinese Connection (2015)
Contemporary Afro-Asian Cultural Production
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Sociology
Hearths of Darkness (2014)
The Family in the American Horror Film
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Dangerous Curves (2013)
Action Heroines, Gender, Fetishism, and Popular Culture
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Sociology
Crime Films of Anthony Mann (2013)
by Max Alvarez
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Director > Anthony Mann
Global Neorealism (2013)
The Transnational History of a Film Style
Dir. Saverio Giovacchini and Robert Sklar
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: History of Cinema
Knockout (2013)
The Boxer and Boxing in American Cinema
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Countries > United States
Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine (2010)
A History of Star Makers, Fabricators, and Gossip Mongers
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: On Films > Movie magazines
Horror Film (2009)
Creating and Marketing Fear
Dir. Steffen Hantke
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
On the Lam (2008)
Narratives of Flight in J. Edgar Hoover's America
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Sociology
Film and Comic Books (2007)
Dir. Ian Gordon, Mark Jancovich and Matthew P. McAllister
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Technique > Adaptation
Just Making Movies (2005)
Company Directors on the Studio System
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Moving Pictures, Migrating Identities (2003)
Dir. Eva Rueschmann
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Sociology
The Films of Martin Ritt (2000)
Fanfare for the Common Man
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Director > Martin Ritt
Groucho and W. C. Fields (1994)
Huckster Comedians
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
• Interviews (1 book)(1 book)
Working with Disney (2011)
Interviews with Animators, Producers, and Artists
by Don Peri
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Studio > Disney Studios
• Stories (10 books)(7 books)
Opening Weekend (2024)
An Insider's Look at Marketing Hollywood's Hits and Flops
by Jim Fredrick
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Economics
Part of the Magic (2023)
A Collection of Disney-Inspired Brushes with Greatness
by Bambi Moé
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Studio > Disney Studios
Pulling a Rabbit Out of a Hat (2019)
The Making of Roger Rabbit
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: One Film > Who Frames Roger Rabbit
The Life and Times of Ward Kimball (2019)
Maverick of Disney Animation
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Studio > Disney Studios
A Thousand Cuts (2016)
The Bizarre Underground World of Collectors and Dealers Who Saved the Movies
by Dennis Bartok and Jeff Joseph
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Economics
Ravished Armenia and the Story of Aurora Mardiganian (2014)
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: One Film > Ravished Armenia
The President's Ladies (2014)
Jane Wyman and Nancy Davis
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Actor > Ronald Reagan
Hollywood Unknowns (2012)
A History of Extras, Bit Players, and Stand-Ins
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Words Into Images (2007)
Screenwriters on the Studio System
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Technique > Scriptwriting
The Magic Behind the Voices (2004)
A Who's Who of Cartoon Voice Actors
by Tim Lawson and Alisa Persons
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Didactic (1 book)(1 book)
• Writings (3 books)(3 books)
Dear Bob (2021)
Bob Hope's Wartime Correspondence with the G.I.S of World War II
Dir. Martha Bolton and Linda Hope
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
The Cavalry Charges (2019)
Writings on Books, Film, and Music, Revised Edition
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Others persons > Barry Gifford
Guiltless Pleasures (2005)
A David Sterritt Film Reader
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Film Analysis
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