James Bennett 
Television Personalities [EPUB ebook] 
Stardom and the Small Screen

Pam Cook”s study of the star persona of Nicole Kidman traces Kidman”s career trajectory through an examination of her (sometimes controversial) film choices and places her in the context of a globa …

Beneath the extreme, taboo-breaking surface of ”Salo” (a controversial and scandalous film made in 1975), Gary Indiana argues that there”s a deeply penetrating account of human behaviour which res …

Hugely impressive in its scope, with introductory chapters on social history, the film industry and theories of realism, this indispensable history of these vital years contains unusually fresh discu …

Martin Shingler presents the mother volume for Palgrave”s Film Stars series in three easily-navigable chapters in which he provides a summative and instructive account of star studies for today”s f …

Francis Ford Coppola”s The Godfather (1972) marked a transition in American film-making, and its success – as a work of art, as a creative ”property” exploited by its studio, Paramount Pictures; a …

This illuminating study charts the changing role of the Hollywood film sequel over the past century. Considering a range of sequels in their industrial, historical and aesthetic contexts, from The So …

Despite being one of the biggest industries in the United States, indeed the World, the internal workings of the ”dream factory” that is Hollywood is little understood outside the business. The Hol …

Working for Paramount in the 1940s playwright and scriptwriter Preston Sturges directed a succession of exceptional comedies of which the ”Palm Beach Story” is perhaps the finest. Pym”s account re …

A heist thriller with a dazzling twist in the tail, this film ”The Usual Suspects” has seen its reputation grow until it is now a major cult movie. Ernest Larsen examines the film”s sophistcated n …

Why do we think of clusters of films as ”national cinema”? Why has the relationship between the nation and film become so widely and uncritically accepted? ”Theorising National Cinema” is a major …