From the 1920s and 1930s, when American cinema depicted the South as a demi-paradise populated by...

Cynical news hounds, grumbling editors, snooping television newscasters, inquisitive foreign corr...

The only comprehensive guide to the crime films of the forties and fifties, this volume focuses o...

Recent crime films such as Scarface, the Dirty Harry series, and The Godfather have captured the ...

The immense popularity of movies has its roots in the silent films of the early 1900s, this being...

Examining 40 cycles or themes and more than 1,000 silent films, the author attempts to discern ho...

Cynical news hounds, grumbling editors, snooping television newscasters, inquisitive foreign corr...

This comprehensive film guide lists the screen credits and provides synopses of more than 5,400 s...

Clever repartee, double entendres, punch lines and many other variations of humor have been a sta...

Over 600 American films, released between 1908 and the present, are arranged in chronological ord...