"The value of black is what the viewer will read into that black space," L.B. Cole once said, one of the premiere cover artists of the Golden Age and beyond. "If it's a horror cover and you have a big ...

About 20 years ago I was in a kind of partnership with another film historian who told me that, no, there wasn’t a market for a book on pre-code movies. I can only wonder what he thinks today after ...