This work identifies 436 American silent films released between 1909 and 1929 that engaged the issues of militant labor and revolutionary radicalism. It begins

Silent Film Adaptations of Novels by British and American Women Writers, 1903–1929 focuses on fifty-three silent film adaptations of the novels of acclaimed a

Giorgio Bertellini traces the origins of American cinema's century-long fascination with Italy and Italian immigrants to the popularity of the pre-photographic

This book is the first comprehensive and systematic study of cross-class romance films throughout the history of American cinema. It provides vivid discussions

The second edition of Movies and American Society is a comprehensive collection of essays and primary documents that explore the ways in which movies have chang