“…Each entry in this remarkable book, which represents a lifetime of teaching film, has already inspired and educated several generations of Hollywood's greatest filmmakers and writers. This book examines the patterns and principles that make films popular and memorable, and will be useful both for those who want to create films and for those who just want to understand them better. …”

“…Screen Tastes brings together Brunsdon's key writings on film and television criticism, with introductions which contextualize and update the arguments and new work on the "post-feminist girly" in recent Hollywood cinema. Brunsdon's focus is on the tastes and pleasures of the female consumer as she is produced by popular film and television--and by feminist criticism.Screen Tastes documents an important contribution to the development of a feminist cultural studies in the 1980s and 1990s with concerns ranging from "shopping films" to the deregulation of public service broadcasting, from feminist teachings to the aestetics of television…”

“…He was the very first icon of the silver screen, and is one of the most recognisable faces in Hollywood, even a hundred years on from his first film. …”

“…"Studies the force of action, motion, and vision in the early cinema of Hollywood director Raoul Walsh"--…”

“…Tras cautivar a millones de lectores con Un caballero en Moscú, Amor Towles vuelve a seducirnos con su elegancia, humor e ingenio narrativo en Mesa para dos, seis relatos que transcurren en Nueva York al filo del cambio del milenio y una novela breve ambientada en la Edad de Oro de Hollywood…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Case 1.1 : The Wrestling Boards / Crystle Martin -- Case 1.2 : StarCraft II / Yong Ming Kow, Amanda Wortman, and Timothy Young -- Affinity : Bonding through shared cultures and practices / Rachel Cody Pfister and Crystle Martin -- Case 2.1: 1D on Wattpad / Ksenia Korobkova -- Case 2.2 : Bollywood Dance / Sangita Shresthova -- Status : developing social and cultural capital / Matthew H. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…How you look -- Consider first impressions like first loves -- Take stage -- Channel the passion -- Translate your body language to credibility -- Don't disappear -- How you talk -- Be professional, not professorial -- Heed the highlighter principle -- Say the right thing at the right time and leave unsaid the wrong thing at the emotional moment -- Abandon chicken little, but stop sugarcoating -- Move the conversation forward -- How you think -- Think strategically -- Cut through the clutter -- Take a point of view -- Think like Hollywood -- Learn to think on your feet under pressure -- How you act -- Engage emotionally -- Master modesty and mind your manners -- Lighten up without letting down -- Commit to what you communicate -- Show up, own up, and straighten it up -- A final note -- The personal presence self-assessment -- Endnotes…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Lee's first month in command of the army of Northern Virginia / In your hands that musket means liberty : African American soldiers and the battle of Olustee / With malice toward both : Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis in caricature / Walt Whitman's real wars / Hollywood has it both ways : the rise, fall, and reappearance of the lost cause in American film / Battle over the bodies : burying and reburying the Civil War dead, 1865-1871 / Not a veteran in the poorhouse : Civil War pension and soldiers' homes / William T. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Approaching the Middlebrow: Audience; Text; Institution; PART I Mapping Middlebrow; 1 Hollywood Middlebrow: A Dialectical approach to 1940s Cinema; Middlebrow/Middle-Class/Moyen; Canonical/Non-Canonical Film History; Screenplay/Direction; Drama/Melodrama; Conclusion: Then/Now; Bibliography; 2 Middlebrow Taste: Towards a New Middle Class - a Certain Tendency of 1950s French Cinema; A New Middle Class; 1950s Film Attendance…”

“…"This book explores the range and dynamism of contemporary Asian cinemas, covering East Asia (China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan), Southeast Asia (Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia), South Asia (Bollywood), and West Asia (Iran), in order to discover what is common about them and to engender a theory or concept of "Asian Cinema". …”
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“…This book charts and analyses the work of Oliver Stone – arguably one of the foremost political filmmakers in Hollywood during the last thirty years. Drawing on previously unseen production files from Oliver Stone’s personal archives and hours of interviews both with Stone and a range of present and former associates within the industry, the book employs a thematic structure to explore Stone’s life and work in terms of war, politics, money, love and corporations. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Decker -- Jane Austen in Mollywood: mainstreaming Mormonism in Andrew Black's Pride & prejudice / Juliette Wells -- Reality corrupts, reality television corrupts absolutely / Karen D. …”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Music and sound in the silent era (1895-1929) ; The transition to sound film (1926-1932) ; Music and the sound track in the classical studio era ; The stereo sound track and the post-classical era (1950-1975) ; The new Hollywood, Dolby stereo, and the emergence of sound design (1975-2000) ; Music and film sound today…”

“…More grand mosaic than linear account, Bergman’s vignettes trace his life from a rural Swedish childhood through his work in theater to Hollywood’s golden age, and a tumultuous romantic history that includes five wives and more than a few mistresses. …”

“…This original and engaging work chronicles the social history of the perception of feminine beauty in America from the fashionable pallor (occasionally induced by doses of arsenic) of the antebellum years to the debut of bare limbs in Atlantic City in 1921 and the impact of Hollywood stars since the 1940s. With meticulous research Lois Banner charts the shifting models of American beauty: the Steel-Engraving Lady, ethereal and submissive with her oval face and heart-shaped mouth; the Voluptuous Woman; the boyish Soubrette; the Gibson Girls and the advance of naturalness; the great and small revolutions of taste and decorum that express not only changing ideals of beauty but the currents of American society itself…”