Auteur: Linda Ruth Williams

One of the rare collections I would recommend for use in undergraduate teaching the chapters are lucid without being oversimplified and the contributors are adept at analyzing the key industrial, tec …

A bold and original study, this is the first book to examine in detail a new genre which evolved since the 1980s in tandem with shifts in the culture of sexuality and the rise of video – the erotic t …

Think about some commercially successful film masterpieces–The Manchurian Candidate. Seven Days in May. Seconds. Then consider some lesser known, yet equally compelling cinematic achievements–The F …

The decade from 2000 to 2009 is framed, at one end, by the traumatic catastrophe of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and, at the other, by the election of the first African American preside …

In the 1990s, American civil society got upended and reordered as many social, cultural, political, and economic institutions were changed forever. Pretty People examines a wide range of Hollywood ic …