American Film History (eBook, ePUB)

Selected Readings, Origins to 1960
Redaktion: Lucia; Simon, Art; Grundmann, Roy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This authoritative collection of introductory and specialized readings explores the rich and innovative history of this period in American cinema. Spanning an essential range of subjects from the early 1900s Nickelodeon to the decline of the studio system in the 1960s, it combines a broad historical context with careful readings of individual films. * Charts the rise of film in early twentieth-century America from its origins to 1960, exploring mainstream trends and developments, along with topics often relegated to the margins of standard film histories * Covers diverse issues ranging from silent film and its iconic figures such as Charlie Chaplin, to the coming of sound and the rise of film genres, studio moguls, and, later, the Production Code and Cold War Blacklist * Designed with both students and scholars in mind: each section opens with an historical overview and includes chapters that provide close, careful readings of individual films clustered around specific topics * Accessibly structured by historical period, offering valuable cultural, social, and political contexts * Contains careful, close analysis of key filmmakers and films from the era including D.W. Griffith, Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Erich von Stroheim, Cecil B. DeMille, Don Juan, The Jazz Singer, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, Scarface, Red Dust, Glorifying the American Girl, Meet Me in St. Louis, Citizen Kane, Bambi, Frank Capra's Why We Fightseries, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, Rebel Without a Cause, Force of Evil, and selected American avant-garde and underground films, among many others. * Additional online resources such as sample syllabi, which include suggested readings and filmographies for both general specialized courses, will be available online. * May be used alongside American Film History: Selected Readings, 1960 to the Present, to provide an authoritative study of American cinema through the new millennium

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 568
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118475164
• Artikelnr.: 43189896

Autorenporträt

Together, Cindy Lucia, Roy Grundmann, and Art Simon are the editors of the four volume reference work, The Wiley-Blackwell History of American Film (2012), of this volume and its companion, American Film History: Selected Readings, Origins to 1960 ( both 2016), all published by Wiley-Blackwell. Cynthia Lucia is Professor of English and Director of Film and Media Studies at Rider University. She is author of Framing Female Lawyers: Women on Trial in Film (2005) and writes for Cineaste film magazine, where she has served on the editorial board for more than two decades. Her most recent research includes essays that appear in A Companion to Woody Allen (Wiley, 2013), Modern British Drama on Screen (2014), and Law, Culture and Visual Studies (2014). Roy Grundmann is Associate Professor of Film Studies at Boston University. He is the author of Andy Warhol's Blow Job (2003) and the editor of A Companion to Michael Haneke (Wiley 2010). He is Contributing Editor of Cineaste and has published essays in a range of prestigious anthologies and journals, including GLQ, Cineaste, Continuum, The Velvet Light Trap, and Millennium Film Journal. He has curated retrospectives on Michael Haneke, Andy Warhol, and Matthias Müller. Art Simon is Professor of Film Studies at Montclair State University. He is the author of Dangerous Knowledge: The JFK Assassination in Art and Film (2nd edition, 2013). He has curated two film exhibitions for the Solomon Guggenheim Museum in New York City and his work has been published in the edited collection "Un-American" Hollywood: Politics and Film in the Blacklist Era (2007) and in the journal American Jewish History.

Inhaltsangabe

Volume I: Origins to 1960
Acknowledgments xii
Preface xiii
Part I Origins to 1928
1 Setting the Stage: American Film History, Origins to 1928 3
References 16
2 D. W. Griffith and the Development of American Narrative Cinema 18
Charlie Keil
Notes 34
References 34
3 Women and the Silent Screen 36
Shelley Stamp
References 51
4 African-Americans and Silent Films 54
Paula J. Massood
Notes 68
References 68
5 Chaplin and Silent Film Comedy 70
Charles J. Maland
References 84
6 Erich von Stroheim and Cecil B. DeMille: Early Hollywood and the
Discourse of Directorial "Genius" 85
Gaylyn Studlar
Notes 97
References 97
7 The Star System 99
Mark Lynn Anderson
Notes 112
References 113
8 Synchronized Sound Comes to the Cinema 115
Paul Young
Notes 128
References 129
Part II 1929-1945
9 Setting the Stage: American Film History, 1929-1945 133
Note 151
References 151
10 Era of the Moguls: The Studio System 153
Matthew H. Bernstein
References 173
11 "As Close to Real Life as Hollywood Ever Gets": Headline Pictures,
Topical Movies, Editorial Cinema, and Studio Realism in the 1930s 175
Richard Maltby
Notes 194
References 198
12 Early American Avant-Garde Cinema 200
Jan-Christopher Horak
Notes 214
References 214
13 "Let 'Em Have It": The Ironic Fate of the 1930s Hollywood Gangster 215
Ruth Vasey
Notes 230
References 230
14 Landscapes of Fantasy, Gardens of Deceit: The Adventure Film between
Colonialism and Tourism 231
Hans Jürgen Wulff
Notes 245
References 246
15 Cinema and the Modern Woman 248
Veronica Pravadelli
Notes 262
References 262
16 Queering the (New) Deal 264
David M. Lugowski
Notes 280
References 280
17 There's No Place Like Home: The Hollywood Folk Musical 282
Desirée J. Garcia
Notes 295
References 296
18 The Magician: Orson Welles and Film Style 297
James Naremore
Notes 309
References 310
19 Classical Cel Animation, World War II, and Bambi 311
Kirsten Moana Thompson
Notes 324
References 325
20 MappingWhy We Fight: Frank Capra and the US Army Orientation Film in
World War II 326
Charles Wolfe
Notes 339
References 339
21 A Victory "Uneasy with Its Contrasts": The Hollywood Left Fights World
War II 341
Saverio Giovacchini
Notes 356
References 359
22 Hollywood as Historian, 1929-1945 361
J. E. Smyth
Notes 377
References 377
Part III 1945-1960
23 Setting the Stage: American Film History, 1945-1960 383
References 397
24 Taking Stock at War's End: Gender, Genre, and Hollywood Labor in The
Strange Love of Martha Ivers 398
Roy Grundmann
Notes 419
References 421
25 Natalie Wood: Studio Stardom and Hollywood in Transition 423
Cynthia Lucia
Notes 444
References 446
26 The Politics of Force of Evil: An Analysis of Abraham Polonsky's
Preblacklist Film 448
Christine Noll Brinckmann
Notes 467
References 469
27 The Actors Studio in the Early Cold War 471
Cynthia Baron & Beckett Warren
Notes 485
References 485
28 Authorship and Billy Wilder 486
Robert Sklar
Notes 501
References 501
29 Cold War Thrillers 503
R. Barton Palmer
References 519
30 American Underground Film 520
Jared Rapfogel
Note 535
References 535
Index 537