Hollywood East tells the story of how the movies evolved as a business--a business controlled from the Eastern seaboard. Many of the photographs in the book are

The visually striking, lightning-fast action movies of Hong Kong used to be a favorite only of cult film enthusiasts -- these days, however, stars such as Sammo

A lively, extensively illustrated history of the widespread influence of Jews on American popular culture through the twentieth century.

The western, one of Hollywood’s great film genres, has, surprisingly, enjoyed a revival recently in Asia and in other parts of the world, whilst at the same t

Examines popular films made in Hollywood by European directors, offering a fresh take on the much-debated issue of the "great divide" between modernism and mass