Cynical news hounds, grumbling editors, snooping television newscasters, inquisitive foreign correspondents, probing newsreel cameramen, and a host of others--all can be found in this reference work t
A chronological listing of the 600-plus American films about the South Pacific islands. Each entry includes the title, director, screenwriter, cast members, plot summary, and analysis. The author lo
From the 1920s and 1930s, when American cinema depicted the South as a demi-paradise populated by wealthy landowners, glamorous belles, and happy slaves, through later, more realistic depictions of th
Collects 4,256 funny lines from American movies, arranged into 117 categories such as adultery, gender, money, police, show business, and vanity. For each entry, the authors set the quotation in cont
