With outrageous sight gags and biological misfires, the Farrelly Brothers pushed the bounds of modern comedy. But in films like There's Something About Mary and Fever Pitch they're also romantics.

Twitter co-founder and creative director Biz Stone considers the impact of tweeting on the entertainment industry.

Luis Buñuel, like many great international filmmakers, still dwells, to a considerable extent, on the far side of a linguistic and cultural barrier. What we have until now lacked, however, is a study that relies primarily on Spanish-language sources, extensively researched and translated by the author.

Eyman reminds us how DeMille's rise in early Hollywood not only paralleled the industry's ascent to global prominence, but was inextricably intertwined with it.

Merrill Brockway belongs to that bustling generation that returned from World War II, earned its education on the GI Bill (his at Princeton), and then moved into an optimistic postwar future where the maps were not yet drawn.

Just as it has transformed our ways of doing business, of communicating with one another, and entertaining ourselves, the Internet, says Carr, by reference to countless neuroscientific studies, is also changing our brains, and not necessarily for the better.

Why the recent decline in film critics isn’t necessarily a good thing for directors.

Storyboards for Michael Bay’s Transformers visualized the battle between man and machine.

Michael Powell’s vivid palette comes alive in a magnificent restoration of his classic The Red Shoes.

As Miller says, being a UPM is all about making magic—within the network budget, of course. She points to a sign in her office (from a stint on The All New Mickey Mouse Club) that reads: Anything Can Happen Day.

"No stone left unturned" is more than a nice cliché to describe UPM Garrett Grant’s approach to his job—it’s the crazy truth.

"I must be an adrenaline junkie," admits Julie Gelfand, "because being an associate director in live television is not for everyone."

Billy Wilder directs Marilyn Monroe in the famed street scene from The Seven Year Itch (1955).