Books in the Texas Film and Media Studies Series series

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.

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.

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.

A study of the lost golden age of Soviet cinema, which was a time of both achievement and contradiction, as reflected in the films of Eisenstein, Pudovkin, and Kuleshov.

This literate and lively study explores the spread of American culture into international cinema as reflected by the collision and partial merger of two important styles of filmmaking: the Hollywood style of stars, genres, and action, and the European art

J. P. Telotte and twelve other noted film scholars examine the appeal of the cult film in this groundbreaking study.

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.

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.

This book examines the INCINE film project and assesses its achievements in recovering a Nicaraguan national identity through the creation of a national cinema.

A study of the first half-century of cable television and why it never achieved its promise as a radically different means of communication.

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.

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.

In this book, Charles Ramirez Berg develops an innovative theory of stereotyping that accounts for the persistence of images of Latinos in U.S. popular culture

This pioneering study offers the first thorough exploration of the movie industry's shaping role in the development of television and its narrative forms.

This book explores the institutional and aesthetic foundations of the New Latin American Cinema.

The history of the rise of home video as a mass medium.

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.

This pioneering study explores the development and dominance of the high concept movie within commercial Hollywood filmmaking since the late 1970s.

The first detailed account of the popular film as it has grown and changed during the tumultuous decades of Indian nationhood.

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.

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.