Traditions in American Cinema – serie
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Film Noir
Av Homer B. Pettey, R. Barton Palmer
Inbunden, 2014
1383 kr
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Explores the development of film noir as a cultural and artistic phenomenon. This book traces the development of what we know as film noir from the proto-noir elements of Feuillade’s silent French crime series and German Expressionism to the genre’s mid-twentieth century popularization and …
In Secrecy's Shadow
The OSS and CIA in Hollywood Cinema 1941-1979
Inbunden, 2016
2095 kr
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During the Second World War hundreds of Hollywood filmmakers under the command of the legendary director John Ford enlisted in the OSS to produce training, reconnaissance and propaganda films. This wartime bond continued into the post-war period, when a number of studios produced films advocating …
Contemporary Hollywood Animation
Style, Storytelling, Culture and Ideology Since the 1990s
Av Noel Brown
Häftad, 2023
548 kr
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A cultural history of the contemporary Hollywood animated feature, from Toy Story to The Lego MovieExamines critically a range of prominent contemporary Hollywood animated featuresReveals the aspects which make these texts attractive to multiple audience sectionsSituates the genre in its social, …
Imagined Life
American Independent Cinema and Transcendentalism
Av Rob Stone
Inbunden, 2026
1240 kr
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Imagined Life: American Independent Cinema and Transcendentalism examines the prevailing characteristics of American independent cinema and explores its longstanding debt to the Transcendentalists. This nineteenth-century New England group, led by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and …
Dark Charisma in Noir Films
The Death of the Ideal Self
Inbunden, 2026
1240 kr
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Noir Films, Dark Charisma and the Death of the Ideal Self draws on sociocultural theory to illuminate the development and content of classic noir and neo-noir films, their audience reception and their continuing attraction by linking the origins of film noir to the extended moral crisis of the …
Indie Reframed
Women’s Filmmaking and Contemporary American Independent Cinema
Av Linda Badley, Claire Perkins m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
2015 kr
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With the consolidation of ‘indie’ culture in the 21st century, female filmmakers face an increasingly indifferent climate. Within this sector, women work across all aspects of writing, direction, production, editing and design, yet the dominant narrative continues to construe ‘maverick’ white male …
Indie Reframed
Women’s Filmmaking and Contemporary American Independent Cinema
Av Linda Badley, Claire Perkins m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
418 kr
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With the consolidation of ‘indie’ culture in the 21st century, female filmmakers face an increasingly indifferent climate. Within this sector, women work across all aspects of writing, direction, production, editing and design, yet the dominant narrative continues to construe ‘maverick’ white male …
American Postfeminist Cinema
Women, Romance and Contemporary Culture
Häftad, 2015
563 kr
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In light of their tremendous gains in the political and professional sphere, and their ever expanding options, why is it that most contemporary American films aimed at women still focus almost exclusively on their pursuit of a heterosexual romantic relationship? American Postfeminist Cinema …
Style of Sleaze
The American Exploitation Film, 1959 - 1977
Inbunden, 2018
2095 kr
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Examines the American exploitation film blaxploitation, exploitation-horror and sexploitation between 1959-1977What is an exploitation film? 'The Style of Sleaze' reasons that the aesthetic and thematic approach of the key texts within three distinct exploitation demarcations blaxploitation, horror …
Contemporary Hollywood Animation
Style, Storytelling, Culture and Ideology Since the 1990s
Av Noel Brown
Inbunden, 2021
2095 kr
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Until the 1990s, animation occupied a relatively marginal presence in Hollywood. Today, it is at the very heart of both the film industry and contemporary popular culture. Charting the major changes and continuities in Hollywood animation over the past thirty years, this groundbreaking book offers …
Cold War Film Genres
Inbunden, 2018
1955 kr
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Examines how Cold War films depicted pertinent issues of American social class and genderFrom the mid-1940s to the late 1980s American film studios enjoyed commercial success in a range of often overlooked genres, employing a new realism to depict social class structures, capitalist desires and the …
'War on Terror' and American Film
9/11 Frames Per Second
Häftad, 2016
693 kr
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This compelling, theoretically informed and up-to-date exploration of contemporary American cinema charts the evolution of the impact of 9/11 on Hollywood film from Black Hawk Down (2001), through Batman Begins (2005), United 93 (2006) to Olympus Has Fallen (2013). Through a vibrant analysis of a …
Film Noir
Av Homer B. Pettey, R. Barton Palmer
Häftad, 2016
677 kr
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Explores the development of film noir as a cultural and artistic phenomenon. This book traces the development of what we know as film noir from the proto-noir elements of Feuillade’s silent French crime series and German Expressionism to the genre’s mid-twentieth century popularization and …
Franchise Era
Managing Media in the Digital Economy
Av James Fleury, Bryan Hikari Hartzheim m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2183 kr
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As Hollywood shifts towards the digital era, the role of the media franchise has become more prominent. This edited collection, from a range of international scholars, argues that the franchise is now an integral element of American media culture. As such, the collection explores the production, …
Engaging Dialogue
Cinematic Verbalism in American Independent Cinema
Inbunden, 2018
1383 kr
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Explores how American directors engage audiences through dialogue that is creatively designed and executedExamining the centrality of dialogue to American independent cinema, Jennifer O'Meara argues that it is impossible to separate small budgets from the old adage that 'talk is cheap'. Focusing on …
Vampires, Race, and Transnational Hollywoods
Av Dale Hudson
Inbunden, 2017
1413 kr
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The figure of the vampire serves as both object and mode of analysis for more than a century of Hollywood filmmaking. Never dying, shifting shape and moving at unnatural speed, as the vampire renews itself by drinking victims’ blood, so too does Hollywood renew itself by consuming foreign styles …
In Secrecy's Shadow
The OSS and CIA in Hollywood Cinema 1941-1979
Häftad, 2017
662 kr
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Drawing on extensive archival research, In Secrecy s Shadow explores the revolution in the relationship between Hollywood and the secret state, from unwavering trust and cooperation to extreme scepticism and paranoia.
Who's in the Money?
The Great Depression Musicals and Hollywood’s New Deal
Av Harvey G. Cohen, Harvey G. Cohen
Inbunden, 2018
2270 kr
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Explores the connections and tensions between Warner Bros. and the Roosevelt administration during 1933Harry and Jack Warner were among the most important advocates and fundraisers of President Franklin Roosevelt during his 1932 presidential campaign, supporting his New Deal legislation in …
Who's in the Money?
The Great Depression Musicals and Hollywood’s New Deal
Häftad, 2018
404 kr
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Explores the connections and tensions between Warner Bros. and the Roosevelt administration during 1933Harry and Jack Warner were among the most important advocates and fundraisers of President Franklin Roosevelt during his 1932 presidential campaign, supporting his New Deal legislation in …
Engaging Dialogue
Cinematic Verbalism in American Independent Cinema
Häftad, 2019
610 kr
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Examining the centrality of dialogue to American independent cinema, Jennifer O’Meara argues that it is impossible to separate small budgets from the old adage that ‘talk is cheap’. Focusing on the 1980s until the present, particularly on the films by writer-directors like Jim Jarmusch, Noah …
Style of Sleaze
The American Exploitation Film, 1959 - 1977
Häftad, 2019
610 kr
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What is an exploitation film? The Style of Sleaze reasons that the aesthetic and thematic approach of the key texts within three distinct exploitation demarcations – blaxploitation, horror and sexploitation – indicate a concurrent evolution of filmmaking that could be seen as an identifiable …
Vampires, Race, and Transnational Hollywoods
Häftad, 2018
692 kr
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The figure of the vampire serves as both object and mode of analysis for more than a century of Hollywood filmmaking. Never dying, shifting shape and moving at unnatural speed, as the vampire renews itself by drinking victims’ blood, so too does Hollywood renew itself by consuming foreign styles …
Other Hollywood Renaissance
Av Dominic Lennard, R. Barton Palmer m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2197 kr
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In the late 1960s, the collapse of the classic Hollywood studio system led in part, and for less than a decade, to a production trend heavily influenced by the international art cinema. Reflecting a new self-consciousness in the US about the national film patrimony, this period is known as the …
Other Hollywood Renaissance
Av Dominic Lennard, R. Barton Palmer m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
657 kr
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In the late 1960s, the collapse of the classic Hollywood studio system led in part, and for less than a decade, to a production trend heavily influenced by the international art cinema. Reflecting a new self-consciousness in the US about the national film patrimony, this period is known as the …
Stillness of Solitude
Romanticism and Contemporary American Independent Film
Inbunden, 2019
1413 kr
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In the first book-length study of Romanticism in relation to American film, Michelle Devereaux takes established theories of contemporary American independent cinema as a point of entry, exploring the underlying philosophical and aesthetic Romantic connections between a selection of seven films …
Stillness of Solitude
Romanticism and Contemporary American Independent Film
Häftad, 2021
548 kr
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In the first book-length study of Romanticism in relation to American film, Michelle Devereaux takes established theories of contemporary American independent cinema as a point of entry, exploring the underlying philosophical and aesthetic Romantic connections between a selection of seven films …
Badfilm
Incompetence, Intention and Failure
Inbunden, 2021
1305 kr
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This fascinating book examines badfilms; a subcategory of 'bad cinema' marked by incompetence, and typically exacerbated by material poverty and restrictive production conditions. It develops a framework through which the formal characteristics of failure are identified and analysed, and identifies …
Badfilm
Incompetence, Intention and Failure
Häftad, 2023
530 kr
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Offers the first in-depth exploration of badfilm as a specific category of bad cinema and cult cinemaProvides close textual analysis of specific badfilms to demonstrate how failure can be identified and analysedRecognises the significance of intentionality in badfilm identification, analysis and …
Cold War Film Genres
Häftad, 2019
697 kr
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From the mid-1940s to the late 1980s American film studios enjoyed commercial success in a range of often overlooked genres, employing a new realism to depict social class structures, capitalist desires and the expansion of the marketplace, and to turn American cultural values comically and …
