In the 1970s, an incredibly popular new film genre emerged, one that would later be reborn on television. And yet there has never been a book on the subject...until now.

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During the first fifty years of the American cinema, the act of going to the movies was a risky process, fraught with a number of possible physical and moral dangers…

Presents 17 essays which examine the career and films of director Stanley Kubrick. This collection provides a case study of Eyes Wide Shut , with four very different essays focusing…

Between 1941 and 1944, Bela Lugosi starred in a series of low-budget films released by Monogram Pictures, populated by crazy, larger-than-life characters who exist in wacky, alternative worlds. In nine…

The cobwebs of time and space are finally cleared. Drawing on years of research across four countries, excavating and analyzing thousands of yellowed documents in archives as well as every…

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of American Horror Film Shorts chronicles for the first time over 1,500 horror and horror-related short subjects theatrically released between 1915, at the dawn of the feature…

Screenplay and complete history of The Mummy's Hand film.

Edgar G. Ulmer: Detour on Poverty Row examines the full scope of the career of this often overlooked film auteur, with essays exploring individual films, groups of films (such as…