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The Value Gap
Female-Driven Films from Pitch to Premiere
University of Texas Press
How female directors, producers, and writers navigate the challenges and barriers facing female-driven projects at each stage of filmmaking in contemporary Hollywood.
Hollywood in San Francisco
Location Shooting and the Aesthetics of Urban Decline
University of Texas Press
This pioneering study of postwar feature films set in San Francisco tracks the transformation of Hollywood filmmaking as location shooting became the dominant production method in an era of urban anxiety.
Connecting The Wire
Race, Space, and Postindustrial Baltimore
University of Texas Press
The first comprehensive, season-by-season analysis of the critically acclaimed HBO series The Wire, this book explicates the complex narrative arc of the entire series and its sweeping vision of institutional failure in the postindustrial United States.
Independent Stardom
Freelance Women in the Hollywood Studio System
By Emily Carman
University of Texas Press
Bringing to light an often-ignored aspect of Hollywood studio system history, this book focuses on female stars who broke the mold of a male-dominated, often manipulative industry to dictate the path of their own careers through freelancing.
The Classical Mexican Cinema
The Poetics of the Exceptional Golden Age Films
University of Texas Press
In one of the first systematic studies of style in Mexican filmmaking, a preeminent film scholar explores the creation of a Golden Age cinema that was uniquely Mexican in its themes, styles, and ideology.
Selling the Silver Bullet
The Lone Ranger and Transmedia Brand Licensing
By Avi Santo
University of Texas Press
Using the Lone Ranger as a case study, this book investigates the transmedia licensing, merchandizing, and brand management of iconic characters from the 1930s through the era of media conglomeration and convergence.
The Dread of Difference
Gender and the Horror Film
Edited by Barry Keith Grant
University of Texas Press
Now updated to include contemporary developments in the horror film genre and the critical thinking about it, Barry Keith Grant’s groundbreaking exploration of the cinema of fear has sold over 8,000 copies.
Indie, Inc.
Miramax and the Transformation of Hollywood in the 1990s
By Alisa Perren
University of Texas Press
Pioneering the field of media industry studies, Indie, Inc. explores how Miramax changed the landscape not only of independent filmmaking but of Hollywood itself during the 1990s.
Edna Ferber's Hollywood
American Fictions of Gender, Race, and History
By J. E. Smyth; Introduction by Thomas Schatz
University of Texas Press
A history of the remarkable partnership forged between the author of such classics as Show Boat, Cimarron, and Giant and the Hollywood moguls who brought her often controversial messages to the silver screen.
Cinema of Solitude
A Critical Study of Mexican Film, 1967-1983
University of Texas Press
A study of el Nuevo Cine (the New Cinema) and its films presenting alienated characters caught in a painful transition period in which old family, gender, and social roles have ceased to function without being replaced by viable new ones.
Coming Attractions
Reading American Movie Trailers
By Lisa Kernan
University of Texas Press
Starting from the premise that movie trailers can be considered a film genre, this pioneering book explores the genre’s conventions and offers a primer for reading the rhetoric of movie trailers.
Cinema and the Sandinistas
Filmmaking in Revolutionary Nicaragua
University of Texas Press
This book examines the INCINE film project and assesses its achievements in recovering a Nicaraguan national identity through the creation of a national cinema.
The Rise of Cable Programming in the United States
Revolution or Evolution?
By Megan Mullen
University of Texas Press
A study of the first half-century of cable television and why it never achieved its promise as a radically different means of communication.
Television Talk
A History of the TV Talk Show
University of Texas Press
A comprehensive history of the first fifty years of television talk, replete with memorable moments from a wide range of classic talk shows, as well as many of today's most popular programs.
Latino Images in Film
Stereotypes, Subversion, and Resistance
University of Texas Press
In this book, Charles Ramírez Berg develops an innovative theory of stereotyping that accounts for the persistence of images of Latinos in U.S. popular culture
Veni, Vidi, Video
The Hollywood Empire and the VCR
University of Texas Press
The history of the rise of home video as a mass medium.
Hollywood Exile, or How I Learned to Love the Blacklist
University of Texas Press
In this highly readable memoir, Bernard Gordon tells a engrossing insider’s story of what it was like to be blacklisted and how he and others continued to work uncredited behind the scenes, writing and producing many box office hits of the era.
Selznick's Vision
Gone with the Wind and Hollywood Filmmaking
By Alan David Vertrees; Introduction by Thomas Schatz
University of Texas Press
Alan David Vertrees challenges the popular image of Selznick as a megalomaniacal meddler whose hiring and firing of directors and screenwriters created a patchwork film that succeeded despite his interference.
Living Room Lectures
The Fifties Family in Film and Television
University of Texas Press
Nina Leibman analyzes many feature films and dozens of TV situation comedy episodes from 1954 to 1963 to find surprising commonalities in their representations of the family.
The Unruly Woman
Gender and the Genres of Laughter
University of Texas Press
How the unruly woman uses humor and excess to undermine patriarchal norms and authority.
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