For three straight years last century, the diminutive actor was Hollywood’s undisputed box-office champion, and the unlikeliest of role models/sex symbols for America’s adolescents, thanks to his role ...

Reality shapes the movies, and the movies reshape reality, which makes its way back into film. In the 1950s, for instance, widespread dismay, sensational media coverage and even congressional hearings ...

Those of us who grew up in the 1980s are apt to associate the teen movie with other hallmarks of that decade’s culture, such as big hair, the Walkman, or “Trump: The Game.” Yet a new book demonstrates ...