Conflicts among Hollywood studios and exhibitors have been going on for years. At their heart are questions about how films should be released--where, when and

This book covers the history of theater as well as the literature of America from 1880-1930. The years covered by this volume features the rise of the popular s

In the Silent Era, film reissues were a battle between rival studios--every Mary Pickford new release in 1914 was met with a Pickford re-release. For 50 years a

This book shows how transnational media operate in the contemporary world and what their impact is on film, television, and the larger global culture. Where a c

Hollywood in the 1960s walked a tightrope between boom and bust. Yet the decade spawned many of the greatest films ever made, saw the advent of the spy thriller