Screen LibraryThe Wiley-Blackwell history of American film /
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Wiley-Blackwell,
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| Publisher Address: | Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : |
| Publication Dates: |
2012. ©c2012 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://www.credoreference.com/book/wileyhiamfi http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470671153 |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (4 volumes) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780470671153 0470671157 |
| Index Number: | PN1993 |
| CLC: | J909.712 |
| Contents: |
V. 1. Origins to 1928 -- v. 2. 1929 to 1945 -- v. 3. 1946 to 1975 -- v. 4. 1976 to the present. Origins to 1928. Setting the Stage. Introduction to Volume I: American Film, Origins to 1928 -- Writing American Film History / Origins to 1914 -- The Early Cinema of Edwin S. Porter / From Peep Show to Picture Palace: The Early Exhibition of Motion Pictures / The Imagined Audience in the Nickelodeon Era / D.W. Griffith and the Development of American Narrative Cinema / Pink-Slipped: What Happened to the Women in the Silent Film Industry? / 1915-1928. Women and the Silent Screen / The Poor Little Rich Girl: Class and Embodiment in the Films of Mary Pickford / African-Americans and Silent Films / Chaplin and Silent Film Comedy / The Devil in the Details: Thomas Ince, Intertitles, and the Institutionalization of Writing in American Cinema / Erich von Stroheim and Cecil B. DeMille: Early Hollywood and the Discourse of Directorial "Genius" / In the Trenches, On the Screen: World War I on Film / American Modern: King Vidor's The Crowd / The Star System / Immigrant Stardom in Imperial America: Pola Negri and the Problem of Typology / Unsophisticated Lady : The Vicissitudes of the Maternal Melodrama in Hollywood / Two or Three Things We Thought We Knew about Silent Film Sound / Synchronized Sound Comes to the Cinema / Film and Culture: Summary Essays. Helios and the Apocalypse : Visions of American History in Films by Griffith, Ford, and Stroheim / Self-Reflection in American Silent Film / 1929 to 1945. Introduction to Volume II: American Film, 1929 to 1945 -- Era of the Moguls : The Studio System / 1929-1938. Re-visioning Frank Capra / As Close to Real Life As Hollywood Ever Gets : Headline Pictures, Topical Movies, Editorial Cinema, and Studio Realism in the 1930 / Early American Avant-Garde Cinema / 1930s Documentary and Visual Culture / Hollywood and Spanish-Speaking Audiences / Let 'Em Have It : The Ironic Fate of the 1930s Hollywood Gangster / Landscapes of Fantasy, Gardens of Deceit: The Adventure Film Between Colonialism and Tourism / The Screwball Comedy / Cinema and the Modern Woman / Queering the (New) Deal / 1939-1945. The Hollywood A-Production Western / There's No Place Like Home: The Hollywood Folk Musical / The Magician: Orson Welles and Film Style / Classical Cel Animation, World War II, and Bambi / Friz Freleng's Jazz: Animation and Music at Warner Bros. / Mapping Why We Fight: Frank Capra and the US Army Orientation Film in World War II / A Victory "Uneasy with Its Contrasts": The Hollywood Left Fights World War II / Hollywood Unions and Hollywood Blacklists / Hollywood as Historian, 1929-1945 / Taking Stock at War's End: Gender, Genre, and Hollywood Labor in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers / 1946 to 1975. Introduction to Volume III: American Film, 1946 to 1975 -- Natalie Wood: Studio Stardom and Hollywood in Transition / Truthmovies Are Just Beginning: American Independent Cinema in the Postwar Era / 1946-1955. The Politics of Force of Evil: An Analysis of Abraham Polonsky's Preblacklist Film / The Gun in the Briefcase: Or, the Inscription of Class in Film Noir / The Actors Studio in the Early Cold War / Hollywood at the Margins: Samuel Fuller, Phil Karlson, and Joseph H. Lewis / Authorship and Billy Wilder / Laughter and Agony in Minnelli's The Long, Long Trailer: Or, "Isn't This Fun, Honey?" / Got-to-See: Teenpix and the Social Problem Picture -- Trends and Cycles / 1956-1965. Cold War Thrillers / American Underground Film / Adults Only: Low-Budget Exploitation / Black Representation in Independent Cinema: From Civil Rights to Black Power / 1966-1975. Cinema Direct and Indirect: American Documentary, 1960-1975 / The Rise of a Film Generation: Film Culture and Cinephilia / Comedy and the Dismantling of the Hollywood Western / The New Hollywood / The Rise and Fall of Blaxploitation / One Big Lousy X: The Cinema of Urban Crisis / Pornography in the Cinema: Last Tango in Paris, Deep Throat, and Boys in the Sand / Nashville: Putting on the Show: Or, Paradoxes of the "Instant" and the "Moment" / Film and Culture: Summary Essays -- American Film Criticism / It's Only a Movie: Reflexivity and Popular Film / Cinema and the Age of Television, 1946-1975 / 1976 to the Present. Introduction to Volume IV: American Film, 1976 -- Seismic Shifts in the American Film Industry / Independent Film: 1980s to the Present / 1976-1988. Reclaiming the Black Family: Charles Burnett, Julie Dash, and the "L.A. Rebellion" / Feminism, Cinema, and Film Criticism / American Avant-Garde Cinema from 1970 / A Reintroduction to the American Horror Film / Charting the Middle Course: The Star Trek Films and 1980s Science Fiction Cinema / Back to the Future: Hollywood and Reagan's America / Eros and Thanatos: Hollywood and the Teenage Marketplace / 1989-1998. Oliver Stone: Hollywood Historian / Black Crossover Cinema / The Queer 1990s: The Challenge and Failure of Radical Change / 24/7: Cable Television, Hollywood, and the Narrative Feature Film / Plasmatics and Prisons: The Morph and the Spectacular Emergence of CGI / 1999-Present. Mainstream Documentary since 1999 / Truthiness Is Stranger than Fictition: The "New Biopic" / The Coen Brothers and the Post-Hollywood Studio Era / Asia as Global Hollywood Commodity / The Blockbuster Superhero / Computer Animation: Margins to Mainstream / Limited Engagement: The Iraq War on Film / American Film After 9/11 / The Biggest Independent Pictures Ever Made: Industrial Reflexivity Today / The End of Cinema (As We Know It): American Movies and Movie Business, 1995-2009 / |