Author : Michael Wood
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 21,52 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231070997
On the American image in the movies
Author : Robert Sklar
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 27,35 MB
Release : 2012-10-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 030775684X
Hailed as the definitive work upon its original publication in 1975 and now extensively revised and updated by the author, this vastly absorbing and richly illustrated book examines film as an art form, technological innovation, big business, and shaper of American values. Ever since Edison's peep shows first captivated urban audiences, film has had a revolutionary impact on American society, transforming culture from the bottom up, radically revising attitudes toward pleasure and sexuality, and at the same time, cementing the myth of the American dream. No book has measured film's impact more clearly or comprehensively than Movie-Made America. This vastly readable and richly illustrated volume examines film as art form, technological innovation, big business, and cultural bellwether. It takes in stars from Douglas Fairbanks to Sly Stallone; auteurs from D. W. Griffith to Martin Scorsese and Spike Lee; and genres from the screwball comedy of the 1930s to the "hard body" movies of the 1980s to the independents films of the 1990s. Combining panoramic sweep with detailed commentaries on hundreds of individual films, Movie-Made America is a must for any motion picture enthusiast.
Author : Harry M. Benshoff
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 12,79 MB
Release : 2011-08-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 144435759X
America on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in the Movies, 2nd Edition is a lively introduction to issues of diversity as represented within the American cinema. Provides a comprehensive overview of the industrial, socio-cultural, and aesthetic factors that contribute to cinematic representations of race, class, gender, and sexuality Includes over 100 illustrations, glossary of key terms, questions for discussion, and lists for further reading/viewing Includes new case studies of a number of films, including Crash, Brokeback Mountain, and Quinceañera
Author : Lawrence Alloway
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 26,23 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN :
Author : Michael Wood
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 16,1 MB
Release : 1975-09
Category : Current Events
ISBN :
Author : Paul Monaco
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 18,83 MB
Release : 2023-06-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0810874393
In A History of American Movies: A Film-by-Film Look at the Art, Craft and Business of Cinema, Paul Monaco provides a survey of the narrative feature film from the 1920s to the present. The book focuses on 170 of the most highly regarded and recognized feature films selected by the Hollywood establishment: each Oscar winner for Best Picture, as well as those voted the greatest by members of the American Film Institute. By focusing on a select group of films that represent the epitome of these collaborations, Monaco provides an essential history of one of the modern world's most complex and successful cultural institutions: Hollywood. Divided into three sections, "Classic Hollywood, 1927-1948," "Hollywood In Transition, 1949-1974," and "The New Hollywood, 1975 To The Present," Monaco examines some of the most memorable works in cinematic history, including The General, Wings, Bringing Up Baby, Gone with the Wind, Citizen Kane, Casablanca, On the Waterfront, The Searchers, Psycho, West Side Story, The Godfat
Author : Daniel Eagan
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 31,74 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0826429777
Collection of the five hundred films that have been selected, to date, for preservation by the National Film Preservation Board, and are thereby listed in the National Film Registry.
Author : Martin Scorsese
Publisher :
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 27,49 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Motion picture producers and directors
ISBN : 9780571192427
This account of American films is balanced between subjective enthusiasm and objective analysis. Scorsese starts from his own childhood love affair with the cinema, when he discovered King Vidor's Dual in the Sun as a boy.
Author : Steven Mintz
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 35,31 MB
Release : 2010-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1405190035
Fully revised, updated, and extended, this compilation of interpretive essays and primary documents teaches students to read films as cultural artifacts within the contexts of actual past events. A new edition of this classic textbook, which ties movies into the broader narrative of US and film history Ten new articles which consider recently released films, as well as issues of gender and ethnicity Well-organized within a chronological framework with thematic treatments to provide a valuable resource for students of the history of American film Fourth edition includes completely new images throughout
Author : Tom O'Brien
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 33,32 MB
Release : 2016-10-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1474287980
This is an original investigation of how movies have reflected and helped to shape the values of a generation. From All the President's Men to Wall Street, US films of the 1970s and 80s were a kaleidoscope of shifting values and contrasting moral viewpoints. Knowing that movies mirror the way we think we are – or would like to be – O'Brien focuses on the key values (or their absence) found in films from this period in order to see more clearly what Americans really cherished in life, and how these values have evolved or changed. Comprehensive and thought provoking, this book addresses how and why movies glamorized and portrayed certain professions; the changing role of women; the targeting of religion for satire; the addressing of environmental issues and film's representation of and engagement with history.
