Film Studies

The first book to examine the depictions of Catholics in American popular culture during the critical period between the Great Depression and the height of the Cold War. Looks at the popular films, TV shows, radio programs, and magazine coverage that re-imagined the Catholic role in American culture.

Through his career, politics, and films, Hollywood filmmaker Stanley Kramer significantly shaped American culture during the Cold War.

An epic story of 20th century film-making, the complete history of the creation of Sergei Bondarchuk's cinematic masterpiece.

The first book-length survey of cinema's vital role in the Cold War cultural combat between the U.S. and the USSR. Focuses on 10 films—five American and five Soviet, both iconic and lesser-known works—showing that cinema provided a crucial outlet for the global “debate” between democratic and communist ideologies.

An engaging and richly detailed production history of a critically acclaimed box office hit. Takes readers behind the scenes to recount the trials and tribulations that attended the epic efforts of producer Frank McCarthy—like Patton, U.S. Army general—and Twentieth Century Fox to finally bring Patton to the screen after eighteen years of planning.

A panoramic survey of nearly a century of Russian films on wars and wartime from World War I to more recent conflicts in Afghanistan and Chechnya, with heavy emphasis on films pertaining to World War II.

A wide-ranging and idiosyncratic look at sixty years of politics and film that uncovers how American movies have mirrored and even challenged anxieties and paranoid perceptions embedded in American society since the start of the Cold War. The first book to take a sweeping look at 60 years of film and analyze them thematically.