安德鲁·莫顿（Andrew Morton） 知名传记作家。他撰写过多部名人传记，其中《戴安娜：她的真实故事》蝉联畅销书榜58周，被翻译为35种语言，并引发了电影、纪录片和王室评论的热潮。此后，莫顿继续撰写了麦当娜、贝克汉姆与维多利亚、汤姆·克鲁斯、安吉丽娜·朱莉等众多名人的传记，并荣登《星期日泰晤士报》和《纽约时报》上畅销书榜。

托马斯•沙兹（Thomas Schatz），美国德克萨斯大学传播学教授，主要研究领域为好莱坞电影和制片厂制度。作为知名电影评论人，著有：《旧好莱坞•新好莱坞：仪式、艺术与工业》《繁荣与衰败：1940年代的美国电影》《体系的特质：制片厂时代的好莱坞电影制作》《好莱坞电影类型》等。他还参与了多部电影及电视纪录片的创作，如美国公共电视台的纪录片系列《美国电影》等。

By integrating star studies and film industry studies, Hollywood Stardom reveals the inextricable bonds between culture and commerce in contemporary notions of film stardom. Integrates the traditions of star studies and industry studies to establish an original and innovative mode of analysis whereby the 'star image' is replaced with the 'star brand' Offers the first extensi...(展开全部)

By integrating star studies and film industry studies, Hollywood Stardom reveals the inextricable bonds between culture and commerce in contemporary notions of film stardom. Integrates the traditions of star studies and industry studies to establish an original and innovative mode of analysis whereby the 'star image' is replaced with the 'star brand' Offers the first extensi...(展开全部)

"This is a starry love story, a tale of seething jealousies and subterfuge, a political imbroglio, and religious cruelties. It sounds like Shakespeare and it could have very well been the plot of one of his plays." --Toronto Star In 1494, award-winning author Stephen R. Bown tells the untold story of the explosive feud between monarchs, clergy, and explorers that split the glob...(展开全部)

What does it mean when a fictional hero takes a journey?. Shares a meal? Gets drenched in a sudden rain shower? Often, there is much more going on in a novel or poem than is readily visible on the surface -- a symbol, maybe, that remains elusive, or an unexpected twist on a character -- and there's that sneaking suspicion that the deeper meaning of a literary text keeps escapin...(展开全部)

斯蒂芬·R. 鲍恩（Stephen R. Bown），加拿大当代著名畅销书作家，专注于科学史、探险史领域的非虚构题材，已出版十余部作品，屡获好评。其作品《白色爱斯基摩人》2016年获得表彰极地主题最佳非虚构图书的威廉·米尔斯奖（William Mills Prize for Polar Books），《最后的维京人》2012年获评“《科克斯书评》年度图书”。 唐奇，就职于南开大学图书馆，热爱文字工作，翻译人文、经管、写作类图书20余部。

"A splendidly instructive and entertaining contribution to film history and a quick lesson on the efficient showstring style of filmmaking by a maverick genius of innovation and exploitation. . . . Corman teaches, as well as delights".--"Choice". 39 photos.

What do Martin Scorsese, Peter Fonda, Francis Ford Coppola, Jonathan Demme, and Jack Nicholson have in common? They, along with so many other Hollywood stars, had their starts with Roger Corman, one of the film world's most successful directors and entrepreneurs. Though he graduated from Stanford with a degree in engineering, Roger Corman long knew he wanted to be in pictures A...(展开全部)