Film History

Hollywood, 1940-2008 Hardcover – April 8, 2009 by Marc Wanamaker (Author) Since World War II, Hollywood has fought and won that same war many times, won the West even more often--plus got the girl--and laughed like crazy, too. The postwar...

Hollywoodland (Images of America) Paperback – May 16, 2011 by Mary Mallory (Author), Hollywood Heritage Inc. (Author) Established by real estate developers Tracy E. Shoults and S. H. Woodruff in 1923, Hollywoodland was one of the first hillside developments built...

Nouvelles Femmes: Modern Women of the French New Wave and Their Enduring Contribution to Cinema Hardcover – June 3, 2025 by Ericka Knudson (Author) Celebrate the iconic female actors and filmmakers of the French New Wave with a compelling examination...

These Fists Break Bricks (Revised and Expanded Edition): How Kung Fu Movies Swept America and Changed the World Hardcover – July 8, 2025 by Grady Hendrix (Author), Chris Poggiali (Author), RZA (Foreword) From New York Times bestselling author Grady Hendrix...

Early Warner Bros. Studios (Images of America) Paperback – July 26, 2010by E.J. Stephens (Author), Marc Wanamaker (Author) Since 1928, Warner Bros. has produced thousands of beloved films and television shows at the studio's magical 110-acre film factory in Burbank....

The fascinating tale of Hollywood powerhouse Paramount Pictures--beginning with its birth in the 1910s through the turbulent decade of the 1930s--was told in Early Paramount Studios by Marc Wanamaker, Michael Christaldi, and E.J. Stephens. Now the same authors are back...

Columbia Pictures: A Century of Hollywood Motion Picture Magic Hardcover – October 15, 2024 by Jim Pauley (Author) Columbia Pictures reaches a major milestone in 2024 by celebrating the 100-year anniversary of Columbia’s incorporation. In the same vein of recent...

A fresh take on the history of film, using timelines to trace its development from the earliest moving images to now. A Chronology of Film presents a fresh perspective on the medium by taking a purely chronological approach to its history,...

Hollywood Then and Now® Hardcover – July 1, 2013 by Rosemary Lord (Author) Hollywood Then and Now is one of the latest revised 'Then and Now' titles in the 3-million-selling series from Anova Books. Hollywood Then and Now is a...