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William, Evans Peter, and Deleyto Celestino, eds. Terms of endearment: Hollywood romantic comedy of the 1980s and 1990s. Edinburgh University Press, 1998.

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Backer, Ron. Mystery movie series of 1940s Hollywood. McFarland & Co., 2010.

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Kendall, Elizabeth. The runaway bride: Hollywood romantic comedy of the 1930s. Anchor Books, 1991.

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Matthews, Melvin E. 1950s science fiction films and 9/11: Hostile aliens, Hollywood, and today's news. Algora Pub., 2007.

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Winokur, Mark. American laughter: Immigrants, ethnicity, and 1930s Hollywood film comedy. St. Martin's Press, 1995.

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Winokur, Mark. American laughter: Immigrants, ethnicity, and 1930s Hollywood film comedy. Macmillan, 1995.

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Eberts, Jake. My indecision is final: The spectacular rise and fall of Goldcrest Films, the independent studio that challenged Hollywood. Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990.

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Pfeffer, Susan Beth. Revenge of the Aztecs: A story of 1920s Hollywood. Waterbird Books, 2004.

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Terry, Ilott, ed. My indecision is final: The spectacular rise and fall of Goldcrest Films, the independent studio that challenged Hollywood. Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990.

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Herzogenrath, Bernd. The Barrandov Studios. Amsterdam University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462989450.

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The Barrandov Studios are one of the largest and oldest film studios in Europe. For more than 80 years so far, the studios have been the location of choice for over 2,500 Czech and International films. Barrandov’s founding fathers, the Havel brothers Vàclav and Milo. (the grandfather and uncle of later president Vàclav Havel), built the ‘Hollywood of Eastern Europe’ in the 1930s. A legendary studio like this – and its story – has so far not been told to an English-speaking readership. This collection aims to correct this, presenting the studio’s rich history, its esteemed directors, and their

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Evans, Peter William, and Celestino Deleyto. Terms of Endearment: Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1980s And 1990s. Ebsco Publishing, 1998.

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DeFrantz, Thomas F. Hip-Hop in Hollywood. Edited by Melissa Blanco Borelli. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199897827.013.001.

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In the early 1980s, Hollywood began to exploit hip-hop dance—especially breaking—to produce a limited series of movie musicals. These “breaksploitation” films set a standard of participation for young artists, and in particular, young artists of color, to enter the movie industry as laborers, and to enter the global imagination of film audiences as representative agents of change. This chapter explores the traditions of Hollywood musicals and dance artists of color just before the hip-hop film production era; the innovations of these early 1980s films in terms of their casting, creative approa

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Knight, Anna Ariadne. Screening the Hollywood Rebels in 1950s Britain. Manchester University Press, 2021.

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Knight, Anna Ariadne. Screening the Hollywood Rebels in 1950s Britain. Manchester University Press, 2021.

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Screening the Hollywood Rebels in 1950s Britain. Manchester University Press, 2021.

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Worland, Rick. Searching for New Frontiers: Hollywood Films in The 1960s. Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, 2018.

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Worland, Rick. Searching for New Frontiers: Hollywood Films in The 1960s. Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, 2018.

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Worland, Rick. Searching for New Frontiers: Hollywood Films in The 1960s. Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, 2018.

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Worland, Rick. Searching for new frontiers: Hollywood films in the 1960s. 2018.

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Horn, Chris. The Lost Decade. Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781501394485.

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Provides an analysis of Hollywood from a fresh viewpoint that shows the careers of Robert Altman, Francis Coppola, William Friedkin, and others in the 1980s as far from conforming to a monolithic pattern of decline, but rather as diverse and complex responses to political and industrial changes. The 1980s are routinely seen as the era of the blockbuster and of ‘Reaganite entertainment,' whereas the dominant view of late 1960s and early 1970s American film history is that of a ‘Hollywood Renaissance’, a relatively brief window of artistry based around a select group of directors. Yet key direct

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Backer, Ron. Mystery Movie Series of 1940s Hollywood. McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers, 2010.

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Platte, Nathan. Making Music in Selznick's Hollywood. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199371112.001.0001.

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Making Music in Selznick’s Hollywood explores the network of musicians and filmmakers whose work defined the sound of Hollywood’s golden age (c. 1920s–1950s). The book’s central character is producer David O. Selznick, who immersed himself in the music of his films, serving as manager, critic, and advocate. By demonstrating music’s value in film and encouraging its distribution through sheet music, concerts, radio broadcasts, and soundtrack albums, Selznick cultivated audiences’ relationship to movie music. But he did not do it alone. Selznick’s films depended upon the men and women who brough

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Cohan, Steven. Monstrous Hollywood. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190865788.003.0005.

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This chapter is the mirror image of the previous one. It looks at narratives about has-been female stars in the context of the studio system’s demise during the 1950s and 1960s. These somewhat later backstudios depict the agency and sexuality of an older female star, who no longer has the safe haven of the studio to control or at least cushion her excessive behavior, as a “monstrous” perversion of femininity. In these films the mature female star personifies the incoherence of the Hollywood brand as a result of the studio system’s implosion, just as her excessive figure is treated as its cause

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Gordon, Douglas, and Philip Monk. Double-Cross: The Hollywood Films Of Douglas Gordon. Art Gallery of York University/The Power Plant, 2004.

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Brown, Noel. Contemporary Hollywood Animation. Edinburgh University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474410564.001.0001.

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Until the 1990s, animation occupied a relatively marginal presence in Hollywood. Today, it is at the very heart of both the film industry and contemporary popular culture. Charting the major changes and continuities in Hollywood animation over the past thirty years, this groundbreaking book offers an authoritative history of Hollywood animation since the 1990s. Analysing dozens of key films, including The Lion King, Toy Story, Shrek, Despicable Me, Frozen and Moana, it examines the emergence of new genres and stylistic approaches, as well as the ongoing blurring of boundaries between animation

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Lynch, Paul. 1980s British Conspiracy Thriller. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2022. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978729131.

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In this book, Paul Lynch explores the genre of the British conspiracy thriller, a confrontational and dark response to what novelists and filmmakers perceived as an increasingly Orwellian secret state in the political landscape of the time. Through analyses of a variety of film and television productions, Lynch examines the ways in which they were influenced by their Hollywood and European counterparts and the work of John le Carré, conveying the real-world practices of the British intelligence services that served as inspiration and evaluating the genre’s effectiveness in providing meaningful

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Dreaming identities: Class, gender, and generation in 1980s Hollywood movies. Westview Press, 1992.

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Dreaming Identities: Class, Gender, and Generation in 1980s Hollywood Movies. Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.

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Risio, Patricia Di. Gender and Genre in 1990s Hollywood. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350292864.

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The 1990s was a decade of significant turmoil in Hollywood cinema, which resulted in a watershed moment in the interplay of gender and genre.Patricia Di Risio argues that cinematic representations of unconventional women had an important effect on traditionally male oriented genres, such as the crime thriller, road movie, western, film noir, war film, sci-fi, and horror. Di Risio analyses seven key films from the decade, includingBlue Steel(1990),Thelma & Louise(1991),The Quick and the Dead(1995),Bound(1996),Jackie Brown(1997),G.I. Jane(1997) andAlien: Resurrection(1997), paying particular

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Cohan, Steven. Historical Hollywood. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190865788.003.0007.

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This chapter singles out accounts of three eras that have preoccupied backstudios. First it looks at films that depict fictionalized versions of real Hollywood scandals from the early 1920s that are set in 1929, the year Hollywood undertook its conversion to all-talking pictures. Then it looks at films about the blacklist, most of which are set in 1951, the year the U.S. House Un-American Activities Committee renewed its investigation of the motion picture industry. Finally, it turns to 1962, the year of Marilyn Monroe’s death, signaling to many the end of Hollywood’s Golden Age, as illustrate

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Harwood, Sarah. Family Fictions: Representations of the Family in 1980s Hollywood Cinema. Palgrave Macmillan, 1997.

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Lindsay, Richard. Hollywood Biblical Epics. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400665899.

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This is the only book of its kind to explore biblical epics from an LGBT perspective, studying films from the silent era, to the postwar major studio era, to the present day. In spite of restrictive Hollywood censorship regulations, filmmakers throughout history have pushed the boundaries of sex and violence when making religious films. In this unrivaled text, author and educator Richard Lindsay analyzes the relationship between bible-based epics and "camp"—films with overwrought acting, casts of thousands, and exotic sexuality. Lindsay presents the ways in which camp style identifies films as

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Nilsson, Johan. American Film Satire in the 1990s: Hollywood Subversion. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

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Gaslight melodrama: From Victorian London to 1940s Hollywood. Continuum, 2001.

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Kent, Miriam. Women in Marvel Films. Edinburgh University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474448826.001.0001.

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The concept of identity in superhero narratives has become a burgeoning field in academic studies of this increasingly popular cinematic genre. Women in Marvel Films provides the first rigorous analysis of the portrayals of women, heroic and otherwise, in films based on Marvel comics from the 1980s to the present. It explores the relationships between this cultural phenomenon and wider issues of gender equality, considering the cultural moments in which Marvel films are made and incorporating complex histories of the comic book and Hollywood industries. Highlighting characterisations of women,

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American History Through Hollywood Film: From the Revolution to The 1960s. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2013.

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American History Through Hollywood Film: From the Revolution to The 1960s. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2013.

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American History Through Hollywood Film: From the Revolution to the 1960s. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2013.

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American History Through Hollywood Film: From the Revolution to The 1960s. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2013.

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Upton, Bryn. Hollywood and the End of the Cold War. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2014. https://doi.org/10.5040/9798881815394.

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From the late 1940s until the early 1990s, the Cold War was perhaps the most critical and defining aspect of American culture, influencing television, music, and movies, among other forms of popular entertainment. Films in particular were at the center of the battle for the hearts and minds of the American public. Throughout this period, the Cold War influenced what movies got produced, how such movies were made, and how audiences understood the films they watched. In the post–Cold War era, some genres of film suffered from the shift in our national narratives, while others were quickly reimag

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Ross, Alexander. Evolution of Hollywood's Calculated Blockbuster Films. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978734777.

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In this book, Alexander Ross highlights how creative entrepreneurs saved the Hollywood studios in the 1970s by establishing the calculated blockbuster, consisting of key replicable markers of success, as Hollywood's preeminent business model. Ross demonstrates how visionary individuals such as Coppola, Spielberg, Lucas, and Zemeckis helped create the modern, calculated blockbuster business model (BBM). However, with the rise of streaming giants and the studios struggling to compete, many consumers of entertainment now elect to partake from the comfort of their homes, making the difference betw

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Latino image makers in Hollywood: Performers, filmmakers and films since the 1960s. McFarland, 2014.

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Depiction of Terrorists in Blockbuster Hollywood Films, 1980-2001: An Analytical Study. McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers, 2011.

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Umland, Samuel J., and Rebecca A. Umland. The Use of Arthurian Legend in Hollywood Film. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216031222.

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This is the first book to examine the various uses of the Arthurian legend in Hollywood film, covering films from the 1920s to the present. The authors use five representational categories: intertextual collage (or cult film); melodrama, which focuses on the love triangle; conservative propaganda, pervasive during the Cold War; the Hollywood epic; and the postmodern quest, which commonly employs the grail portion of the legend. Arguing that filmmakers rely on the audience's rudimentary familiarity with the legend, the authors show that only certain features of the legend are activated at any p

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West, Alexandra. 1990s Teen Horror Cycle: Final Girls and a New Hollywood Formula. McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers, 2018.

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Shin, Gloria. Elizabeth Taylor. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781666991338.

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In Elizabeth Taylor: Icon of American Empire, Gloria Shin contends that the eponymous movie star is a model of postcolonial whiteness as her tenure as the most beautiful and famous woman in the world coincides with the era of postcolonialism in the 1950s and 1960s. Taylor is examined through a series of overlapping readings: as the Mistress in a cycle of Hollywood plantation films in the 1950s, via her extra-cinematic image as an exoticized jet-setting wanton seductress in the 1960s, through her repatriation to the U.S. and the election of her pro-military husband to the U.S. Senate in the 197

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Neibaur, James L. Clark Gable in The 1930s: The Films That Made Him King of Hollywood. McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers, 2021.

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Hostile Aliens, Hollywood and Today's News: 1950s Science Fiction Films and 9/11. Algora Publishing, 2007.

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Horlock, Douglas. The Films of Delmer Daves. University Press of Mississippi, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496838841.001.0001.

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Although Delmer Daves was a prolific director and screenwriter during Hollywood’s ‘Golden Age,’ there has been little serious analysis of his work. Regarded as a director of non-reflective action movies, author and director Bertrand Tavernier concluded that he was the most forgotten of American directors. More recent publications which consider his better known films have initiated more sustained appreciation of Daves as a film-maker, but to date, no scholarly monograph has examined his full body of work. This comprehensive study considers all his films, as well as screenplays written for othe

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The depiction of terrorists in blockbuster Hollywood films, 1980-2001: An analytical study. McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2011.

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