PublishedEdinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, c2005
Langford provides a comprehensive account of genre history and contemporary trends in Hollywood and global cinema alongside the critical debates they...
Before the film industry arrived, Hollywood was filled with quaint bungalows, millionaires' estates, and churches dedicated to teetotalism. Movies shattered...
PublishedBaltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008
Early in the twentieth century a new character type emerged in the crime novels of American writers such as Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler: the...