Author: Grant Barry Keith Grant

New York, more than any other city, has held a special fascination for filmmakers and viewers. In every decade of Hollywood filmmaking, artists of the screen have fixated upon this fascinating place …

The profound cultural and political changes of the 1960s brought the United States closer to social revolution than at any other time in the twentieth century. The country fragmented as various …

Monster Cinema introduces readers to a vast menagerie of movie monsters. Some are gigantic, like King Kong or the kaiju in Pacific Rim, while others are microscopic. Some monsters appear uncannily …

A comprehensive guide to science fiction films, which analyzes and contextualizes the most important examples of the genre, from Un voyage dans la lune (1902), to The Road …

Upon its release in 1956, Don Siegel’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers was widely perceived as another ‘B’ movie thriller in the cycle of science fiction and horror films that proliferated in the …

Documentary films constitute a major part of film history. Cinema”s origins lie, arguably, more in non-fiction than fiction, and documentary represents the other – often submerged and barely visible …

"[A] well-plotted survey." Total Film In 100 American Horror Films, Barry Keith Grant presents entries on 100 films from one of American cinema’s longest-standing, most diverse and most …

"[A] well-plotted survey." Total Film In 100 American Horror Films, Barry Keith Grant presents entries on 100 films from one of American cinema’s longest-standing, most diverse and most …

The Dread of Difference is a classic. Few film studies texts have been so widely read and so influential. It s rarely on the shelf at my university library, so continuously does it circulate. Now …

It is hard to discuss the current film industry without acknowledging the impact of comic book adaptations, especially considering the blockbuster success of recent superhero movies. Yet transmedial …