Culture and the Moving Image – serie
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Inventing Vietnam
The War in Film and Television
Häftad, 1991
401 kr
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Testimony of the unique relationship between the U.S.-Vietnam War and the images and sounds that have been employed to represent it
Framing Blackness
The African American Image in Film
Av Ed Guerrero
Häftad, 1993
411 kr
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From D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation to Spike Lee's Malcolm X, Ed Guerrero argues, the commercial film industry reflects white domination of American society. Written with the energy and conviction generated by the new black film wave, Framing Blackness traces an ongoing epic—African …
Shadows on the Past
Studies in the Historical Fiction Film
Häftad, 1994
381 kr
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Studying popular Hollywood films from "Gone With the Wind" to "Reds" and such distinguished European films as "La Marseillaise" and "The Rise to Power of Louis XIV", Leger Grindon examines how historical fiction films interpret the present through a representation of the past. The historical …
Hitler's Heroines
Stardom & Womanhood in Nazi Cinema
Häftad, 2003
340 kr
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German film-goers flocked to see musicals and melodramas during the Nazi era. Although the Nazis seemed to require that every aspect of ordinary life advance the fascist project, even the most popular films depicted characters and desires that deviated from the politically correct ideal. Probing …
Magic Hour
Film at Fin De Siecle
Av J. Hoberman
Häftad, 2007
429 kr
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A new anthology from one of America's foremost critics of movies and culture
Cowboys As Cold Warriors
The Western and U S History
Häftad, 2004
345 kr
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Though the United States emerged from World War II with superpower status and quickly entered a period of economic prosperity, the stresses and contradictions of the Cold War nevertheless cast a shadow over American life. The same period marked the heyday of the western film. Cowboys as Cold …
All Talk
The Talkshow in Media Culture
Av Wayne Munson
Inbunden, 1993
746 kr
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Wayne Munson examines the talkshow as a cultural form whose curious productivity has become vital to America's image economy. As the very name suggests, the talkshow is both interpersonal exchange and mediated spectacle. Its range of topics defies classification: from the sensational and bizarre, …
All Talk
The Talkshow in Media Culture
Av Wayne Munson
Häftad, 1993
398 kr
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Wayne Munson examines the talkshow as a cultural form whose curious productivity has become vital to America's image economy. As the very name suggests, the talkshow is both interpersonal exchange and mediated spectacle. Its range of topics defies classification: from the sensational and bizarre, …
Fine Romance
Five Ages of Film Feminism
Inbunden, 1996
1034 kr
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A challenging look at twenty years of feminist film theory
Fine Romance
Five Ages of Film Feminism
Häftad, 1996
359 kr
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A challenging look at twenty years of feminist film theory
Hollywood's New Deal
Inbunden, 1997
1065 kr
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Despite the economic hardship of the thirties, people flocked to the movies in unprecedented numbers. At the same time, the Roosevelt Administration was trying to implement the New Deal and increase the influence and power of the federal government. Weaving together film and political history, …
Hollywood's New Deal
Häftad, 1997
398 kr
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Despite the economic hardship of the thirties, people flocked to the movies in unprecedented numbers. At the same time, the Roosevelt Administration was trying to implement the New Deal and increase the influence and power of the federal government. Weaving together film and political history, …
New Censors
Movies and the Culture Wars
Häftad, 1997
345 kr
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After the Supreme Court's rejection of legal movie censorship in the 1950s and the demise of the Hays Production Code in the 1960s, various public groups have emerged as media watch dogs, replacing nearly all other sources of control. Responding to explicit violence against women, negative …
Frank Capra
Authorship and the Studio System
Av Robert Sklar
Häftad, 1998
384 kr
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Frank Capra's films have had a lasting impact on American culture. His powerful depiction of American values, myths, and ideals was central famous Hollywood films as It Happened One Night, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and It's a Wonderful Life. These pre-war films are remembered for their …
Red Atlantis
Av J. Hoberman
Inbunden, 1998
964 kr
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For most of the twentieth century, American and European intellectual life was defined by its fascination with a particular utopian vision. Both the artistic and political vanguards were spellbound by the Communist promise of a new human era -- so much so that its political terrors were …
Sisters on Screen
Inbunden, 2000
1005 kr
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Perhaps the most vital, emotionally complex, and lasting attachments between women occur between sisters. Whether as best friends or antagonists, \u0022sisters remain entangled in a common tapestry of mutual experience and remembrance, family and history,\u0022 according to author Eva Ruschmann. …
Sisters on Screen
Häftad, 2000
376 kr
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Perhaps the most vital, emotionally complex, and lasting attachments between women occur between sisters. Whether as best friends or antagonists, \u0022sisters remain entangled in a common tapestry of mutual experience and remembrance, family and history,\u0022 according to author Eva Ruschmann. …
Red Atlantis
Av J. Hoberman
Häftad, 2000
359 kr
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For most of the twentieth century, American and European intellectual life was defined by its fascination with a particular utopian vision. Both the artistic and political vanguards were spellbound by the Communist promise of a new human era -- so much so that its political terrors were …
Hollywood Modernism
Film & Politics in Age of New Deal
Inbunden, 2001
1007 kr
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Hollywood culture has been dismissed as insignificant for so long that film buffs and critics might be forgiven for forgetting that for two decades an unprecedented interaction of social and cultural forces shaped American film. In this probing account of how a generation of industry newcomers …
Hollywood Modernism
Film & Politics in Age of New Deal
Häftad, 2001
369 kr
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Hollywood culture has been dismissed as insignificant for so long that film buffs and critics might be forgiven for forgetting that for two decades an unprecedented interaction of social and cultural forces shaped American film. In this probing account of how a generation of industry newcomers …
Andy Warhol'S Blow Job
Inbunden, 2003
978 kr
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In this ground-breaking and provocative book, Roy Grundmann contends that Andy Warhol's notorious 1964 underground film, Blow Job, serves as rich allegory as well as suggestive metaphor for post-war American society's relation to homosexuality. Arguing that Blow Job epitomizes the highly complex …
Andy Warhol'S Blow Job
Häftad, 2003
345 kr
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In this ground-breaking and provocative book, Roy Grundmann contends that Andy Warhol's notorious 1964 underground film, Blow Job, serves as rich allegory as well as suggestive metaphor for post-war American society's relation to homosexuality. Arguing that Blow Job epitomizes the highly complex …
Hitler's Heroines
Stardom and Womanhood in Nazi Cinema
Inbunden, 2003
940 kr
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German film-goers flocked to see musicals and melodramas during the Nazi era. Although the Nazis seemed to require that every aspect of ordinary life advance the fascist project, even the most popular films depicted characters and desires that deviated from the politically correct ideal. Probing …
Black City Cinema
African American Urban Experiences in Film
Inbunden, 2003
941 kr
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In "Black City Cinema", Paula Massood shows how popular films reflected the massive social changes that resulted from the Great Migration of African Americans from the rural South to cities in the North, West, and Mid-West during the first three decades of the twentieth century. By the onset of the …
Black City Cinema
African American Urban Experiences in Film
Häftad, 2003
311 kr
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In Black City Cinema, Paula Massood shows how popular films reflected the massive social changes that resulted from the Great Migration of African Americans from the rural South to cities in the North, West, and Mid-West during the first three decades of the twentieth century. By the onset of the …
Cowboys As Cold Warriors
The Western and U S History
Inbunden, 2001
922 kr
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Though the United States emerged from World War II with superpower status and quickly entered a period of economic prosperity, the stresses and contradictions of the Cold War nevertheless cast a shadow over American life. The same period marked the heyday of the western film. "Cowboys as Cold …
