Books in the Wiley-Blackwell Series in Film and Television series

"The perfection of Leonard's volume as a teaching text made itself manifest to me not only in its wonderfully detailed analyses, but in the many moments that I found myself seamlessly entering into a discussion with them.

A movie that swept the 1934 Academy Awards and captivated Depression-era America, It Happened One Night challenged the ways Americans imagined marriage, romance, gender, and class difference. This book examines key scenes and formal features of It Happened One Night , and explores its lasting importance in film history and in cultural studies.

Miami Vice captures the glitter and glamour embodied by Crockett and Tubbs by offering an anatomy of a ground-breaking work in the police procedural genre. The volume explores Vice's combination of disparate influences (MTV, film noir, soap opera, action films) as well as the social and cultural moments when it burst onto the network.

There are certain films and shows that resonate with audiences everywhere they generate discussion and debate about everything from gender, class, citizenship and race, to consumerism and social identity. This new 'teachable canon' of film and television introduces students to alternative classics that range from silent film to CSI.

Peter Evans' immensely readable volume uses this classic film to explore questions not only of integration across the Hollywood musical in general, but the ambiguities of (gendered) national identity, romance, subjectivity and the notion of the couple.

Noted film expert and cultural scholar Dana Heller utilizes elements of Hairspray -- including original interview material with John Waters -- to engage readers in thought-provoking discussions about topics ranging from camp and queer theory to gender performance and the body; from debates over postmodern style vs.