Movie Genres: Horror–Select Biblio

Horror Genre: Select Biblio

Directors: Stahl, John M. and Hollywood Melodrama

The Call of the Heart: John M. Stahl and Hollywood Melodrama  by Bruce Babington (Editor), Charles Barr (Editor) The profusion of research on film history means that there are now few Hollywood filmmakers in the category of Neglected Master; John M Stahl (1886–1950) has been stuck in it for far too long. His strong association […]

French Queer Cinema: by Nick Rees-Roberts 

Whilst there is growing research on representations of queer sexualities in France, this is the first comprehensive study of the cultural formation and critical reception of contemporary queer film and video.

Women in Film: Select Biblio

Research in Progress (March 30, 2021) Cole, Jonathan R. Fair Science: Women in the Scientific Community. Free Press, 1979. De Lauretis, Teresa (ed) Feminist Studies–Critical Studies. (Theories of Contemporary Culture Series). Indiana Univ Press, paper. De Lauretis, Teresa. Alice Doesn’t: Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema. Indiana Univ Press, 1984. Drake, William. The First Wave: Women Poets in […]

Movie Stars: America’s Democratic Elite–Theory and Research

The goal of my book is to assess the significance of movie stardom as a persistent, long-enduring cultural phenomenon by analyzing the multiple functions and power of movie stars, in the film industry and outside, at the society at large.