Bücher der Reihe McFarland Classics

This study focuses on the genre of screwball comedy between 1934 and 1942, film-by-film, year-by-year, providing film enthusiasts or serious researchers with an informed guide to the screen offerings of the era.

This biography of John Wayne includes analyses of films that made him a hero, a comprehensive filmography, and a study of his style of work.

This is a definitive record of the players and productions of Mascot Pictures, a film company that specialised in chapter plays and B movies and became influential in winning an audience for the kind of films it innovated, such as the musical Western.

This text looks at such varied subjects as Victorian architecture, urban crime, women's rights and the impact of new technology in an attempt to understand the peculiar relationship between horror in literature and the horror of daily life.

The compilers of this book have brought together some of the funniest snatches of dialogue on film over a 60 year time period. Each entry sets the quotation in context, names the actor or actress, the name of the movie and the year of release. The quotations are arranged by category.

This is a complete filmography of Allied Artists Pictures Corporations' 452 feature films and short subjects. Each entry gives dates of release, running time, genre, production credits, cast, a brief plot synopsis and a notes section showing items of special interest.

This is a photographic guide to 382 sites in and around Los Angeles that have been used in film and television. Some are well known (Mann's Chinese Theater, the Hollywood Bowl), others are obscure (such as the Hollywood Hills house used in ""Double Indemnity"").

This text evaluates the work of Laurel and Hardy. It summarizes the critical reception of the two and compares Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy to other contemporary comedians. Brief biographies analyse early solo films and the development of the team. Attention is given to cinematic and comic style.

Taboo breakers and trend setters, shameless hucksters and famous directors, exploitation filmmaking has seen it all. This collection features ""classic films"" such as ""The Texas Chainsaw Massacre"" and ""Nude On The Moon"".