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America on Film

Author : Harry M. Benshoff
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 144435759X
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book America on Film written by Harry M. Benshoff and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-08-26 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

America on Film

Author : Kenneth M. Cameron
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book America on Film written by Kenneth M. Cameron and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1997 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The challenge of making the great American historical film has attracted some of our finest talents: D. W. Griffith, John Ford, Robert Altman, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Oliver Stone, Spike Lee. From the earliest flickering images of The Spirit of 76 (1905) through Nixon, America on Film subtly and entertainingly examines Hollywood's filming of American history, including biographies. Among the many films considered, some omissions seem surprising: The Birth of a Nation and Gone with the Wind, for example, since they are based on fiction. But The Iron Horse, The Beginning or the End?, the Jackie Robinson Story, Patton, Quiz Show, Lenny, Malcolm, X, Apollo 13, and literally hundreds of others are all here. Through these many movies, we see the interrelationships between image and substance, illusion and reality, racism and democracy, and cynicism and idealism, which form America's unique national identity.

America on Film

Author : Sam B. Girgus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521009317
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book America on Film written by Sam B. Girgus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-10-17 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Showdown, Confronting Modern America in the Western Film

Author : John H. Lenihan
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252012549
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book Showdown, Confronting Modern America in the Western Film written by John H. Lenihan and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Showdown is a study of America's oldest, most representative film genre, the Western movie from the perspective of social allegory. It assesses scores of major and minor films to show how Westerns function as vehicles for contemporary social and political critiques of American life.

Imagining America at War

Author : Cynthia Weber
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415375368
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (753 download)

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Download or read book Imagining America at War written by Cynthia Weber and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cynthia Weber presents a stimulating new study of how Americans construct their identity and the moral values that inform their foreign policy. She details how films released between 9/11 and Gulf War II reflect raging debates about US foreign policy and fundamental debates about what it means to be an American.

Hollywood's America

Author : Steven Mintz
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405190035
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Hollywood's America written by Steven Mintz and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Reversing the Lens

Author : Jun Xing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Reversing the Lens written by Jun Xing and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reversing the Lens is relevant to anyone who is curious about how video and film can be utilized to expose ethnicity, race, gender, and sexuality as social constructions subject to political contestation and in dialogue with other potential forms of difference."--BOOK JACKET.

21st Century Retro: "Mad Men" and 1960s America in Film and Television

Author : Debarchana Baruah
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839457211
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book 21st Century Retro: "Mad Men" and 1960s America in Film and Television written by Debarchana Baruah and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numerous contemporary televisual productions revisit the past but direct their energies towards history's non-events and anti-heroic subjectivities. Debarchana Baruah offers a vocabulary to discuss these, using Mad Men as a primary case study and supplementing the analysis with other examples from the US and around the world. She takes a fundamentally interdisciplinary approach to studying film and television, drawing from history, memory, and nostalgia discourses, and layering them with theories of intertextuality, paratexts, and actor-networks. The book's compositions style invites discussions from scholars of various fields, as well as those who are simply fans of history or of Mad Men.

Why We Fought

Author : Peter C. Rollins
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813138744
Total Pages : 877 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Why We Fought written by Peter C. Rollins and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2008-07-25 with total page 877 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “wide-ranging and sophisticated anthology” comparing theaters of war to wars in the movie theater (Dennis Showalter, author of Patton and Rommel). Why We Fought makes a powerful case that film can be as valuable a tool as primary documents for improving our understanding of the causes and consequences of war. A comprehensive look at war films, from depictions of the American Revolution to portrayals of September 11 and its aftermath, this volume contrasts recognized history and historical fiction with the versions appearing on the big screen. The text considers a selection of the pivotal war films of all time, including All Quiet on the Western Front, Sands of Iwo Jima, Apocalypse Now, Platoon, and Saving Private Ryan—revealing how film depictions of the country’s wars have shaped our values, politics, and culture, and offering a unique lens through which to view American history. Named as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Small-town America in Film

Author : Emanuel Levy
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Small-town America in Film written by Emanuel Levy and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1991 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Routledge Companion to Religion and Film

Author : John Lyden
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135220662
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Religion and Film written by John Lyden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-05-07 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Religion and Film brings together a lively and experienced team of contributors to introduce students to the key topics in religion and film and to investigate the ways in which the exciting subject of religion and film is developing for more experienced scholars. Divided into four parts, the Companion: analyzes the history of the interaction of religion and film, through periods of censorship as well as appreciation of the medium studies religion-in-film, examining how the world’s major religions, as well as Postcolonial, Japanese and New Religions, are depicted by and within films uses diverse methodologies to explore religion and film, such as psychoanalytical, theological and feminist approaches, and audience reception analyzes religious themes in film, including Redemption, the Demonic, Jesus or Christ Figures, Heroes and Superheroes considers films as diverse as The Passion of the Christ, The Matrix, Star Wars and Groundhog Day. This definitive book provides an accessible resource to this emerging field and is an indispensable guide to religion and film for students of Religion, Film Studies, and beyond.

Film Censorship

Author : Sheri Chinen Biesen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231851138
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Film Censorship written by Sheri Chinen Biesen and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film Censorship is a concise overview of Hollywood censorship and efforts to regulate American films. It provides a lean introductory survey of U.S. cinema censorship from the pre-Code years and classic studio system Golden Age—in which film censorship thrived—to contemporary Hollywood. From the earliest days of cinema, movies faced controversy over screen images and threats of censorship. This volume draws extensively on primary research from motion picture archives to unveil the fascinating behind-the-scenes history of cinema censorship and explore how Hollywood responded to censorial constraints on screen content in a changing American cultural and industrial landscape. This primer on American film censorship considers the historical evolution of motion-picture censorship in the United States spanning the Jazz Age Prohibition era, lobbying by religious groups against Hollywood, industry self-censorship for the Hays Office, federal propaganda efforts during wartime, easing of regulation in the 1950s and 1960s, the MPAA ratings system, and the legacy of censorship in later years. Case studies include The Outlaw, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Scarface, Double Indemnity, Psycho, Bonnie and Clyde, Midnight Cowboy, and The Exorcist, among many others.

On Strike and on Film

Author : Ellen R. Baker
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469606542
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book On Strike and on Film written by Ellen R. Baker and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1950, Mexican American miners went on strike for fair working conditions in Hanover, New Mexico. When an injunction prohibited miners from picketing, their wives took over the picket lines--an unprecedented act that disrupted mining families but ultimately ensured the strikers' victory in 1952. In On Strike and on Film, Ellen Baker examines the building of a leftist union that linked class justice to ethnic equality. She shows how women's participation in union activities paved the way for their taking over the picket lines and thereby forcing their husbands, and the union, to face troubling questions about gender equality. Baker also explores the collaboration between mining families and blacklisted Hollywood filmmakers that resulted in the controversial 1954 film Salt of the Earth. She shows how this worker-artist alliance gave the mining families a unique chance to clarify the meanings of the strike in their own lives and allowed the filmmakers to create a progressive alternative to Hollywood productions. An inspiring story of working-class solidarity, Mexican American dignity, and women's liberation, Salt of the Earth was itself blacklisted by powerful anticommunists, yet the movie has endured as a vital contribution to American cinema.

American Film

Author : Jon Lewis
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393979229
Total Pages : 5 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (939 download)

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Download or read book American Film written by Jon Lewis and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2007-11-07 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful book and a brisk read, American Film is the most enjoyable and interesting overview of the history of American filmmaking available. Focused on aspects of the film business that are of perennial interest to undergraduates, this book will engage students from beginning to end.

In America

Author : Jim Sheridan
Publisher : Newmarket Pictorial Moviebooks
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In America written by Jim Sheridan and published by Newmarket Pictorial Moviebooks. This book was released on 2003 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told by 11-year-old Christy, a child wise beyond her years. An Irish couple bring their two young daughters to America in search of a better life. Christy and her sister, Ariel, find New York's Hell's Kitchen a place of magic where anything is possible. To their parents, it represents a place to begin anew. Carried by the girls' youthful hope and faith, the family finds the heart to live and love again.

Moviegoing in America

Author : Gregory A.. Waller
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631225911
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (259 download)

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Download or read book Moviegoing in America written by Gregory A.. Waller and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2001-12-05 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pairing significant research with primary documents, Moviegoing in America charts the evolution of film exhibition and reception as a function of changing patterns of American community, identity, consumption, and the fabric of everyday life. "Moviegoing in America is an important, groundbreaking book." -- The Moving Image "Waller assembles an impressive collection that should become a key resource in the teaching of film exhibition history." -- Screen

Colonial America on Film and Television

Author : Bertil O. Österberg
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786450584
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Colonial America on Film and Television written by Bertil O. Österberg and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early history of American settlement, pioneering, and independence is marked by fascinating characters and events often shrouded in legend. Filmmakers have sought to capture these characters, as diverse as Daniel Boone, Francis Marion and Pocahontas, and events, as disparate as the Lost Colony, the Boston Tea Party and the French and Indian War. This comprehensive filmography provides production information and commentary on all films and television episodes set during the years between the first settlements in the future United States and the fledgling country's War of 1812 with Britain. Films are arranged alphabetically, and a detailed introduction provides a thorough overview of the period, with references to films chronicling specific events.