Series: Inside Popular Film

Memory and Popular Film uses memory as a specific framework for the cultural study of film. Taking Hollywood as its focus, the text provides a sustained, interdisciplinary perspective on memory and film, from early cinema to the present. Considering the relationship between official and modern memory, the politics of memory, and the technological and representational shifts that have come to...

Monsters in the Closet is a history of the horror film that explores the genre's relationship to the social and cultural history of homosexuality in America. Drawing on a wide variety of films and primary source materials—including censorship files, critical reviews, promotional materials, fanzines, men's magazines, and popular news weeklies—the book examines the historical figure of the movie monster in...