20th Century History

As Hitler's war looms, famous Australian artist Roland Griffin returns home from London with his family to live a simple life of shared plums and low-cut lawns in the suburbs....

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A proper literary belter' THE TIMES 'Affectionate and endlessly entertaining' RICHARD OSMAN A wildly ambitious story of the making of a colossal, star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero...

This account of Columbia starts in 1924 when the studio first opened; since then it has made over 3000 movies. Every feature-length film (running 50 minutes or longer) released by...

By the time of her death in 2003 at the age of 96, Katharine Hepburn had long been an American institution. The following year, Cate Blanchett's striking depiction of Hepburn's...

A celebration of the world's most cherished cinemas, from vintage movie houses to quirky start-ups. Grab your popcorn and settle in to the world of Silver Screens , where the...

A celebration of the world's most cherished cinemas, from vintage movie houses to quirky start-ups. Grab your popcorn and settle in to the world of Silver Screens , where the...

This work combines a history of Hollywood with an analysis of how and why the entertainment capital of the world has consistently survived its own limitations to meet changing public...

Australia's best-loved film critic David Stratton reviews (almost) every feature film from the past three decades in the ultimate guide to modern Australian cinema. From The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen...

Few filmmakers, if any, make the kind of impact that Martin Scorsese has made on American cinema. The winner of every prestigious film award, including the Oscar, Scorsese is a...

New York Times "Editors Choice," Los Angeles Times "Must Read Book for Summer," and a New Yorker "Best Book of the Year So Far" "This is the biography of Clint...

In Hollywood Left and Right, Steven J. Ross tells a story that has escaped public attention: the emergence of Hollywood as a vital center of political life and the important...

For the first time in red spine, Werner Herzog's legendary document of his most infamous act- the filming of his masterpiece, Fitzcarraldo A fever-dream journal documenting the making of cinema's...

The inspiring and entertaining memoir from national treasure and star of Only Fools and Horses, Sir David Jason Sir David Jason's career, from the outside, might seem like one glorious...

An extremely funny scene-by-scene analysis of the Richard Burton/Clint Eastwood film Where Eagles Dare - published as the film approaches its 50th anniversary Where Eagles Dare is both a thrillingly...

Despite the massive influx of Hollywood movies and films from other European countries after World War II, Austrian film continued to be hugely popular with Austrian and German audiences. By...

Author: Xiaoping LinFormat: Hardback, 670g, 320 pagesPublished: University of Hawai'i Press, United States, 2009Children of Marx and Coca-Cola affords a deep study of Chinese avant-garde art and independent cinema from...