Looking Past the Screen (eBook, PDF)

Case Studies in American Film History and Method
Redaktion: Jon Lewis, Lewis

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Produktbeschreibung

Film scholarship has long been dominated by textual interpretations of specific films. Looking Past the Screen advances a more expansive American film studies in which cinema is understood to be a social, political, and cultural phenomenon extending far beyond the screen. Presenting a model of film studies in which films themselves are only one source of information among many, this volume brings together film histories that draw on primary sources including collections of personal papers, popular and trade journalism, fan magazines, studio publications, and industry records.Focusing on Hollywood cinema from the teens to the 1970s, these case studies show the value of this extraordinary range of historical materials in developing interdisciplinary approaches to film stardom, regulation, reception, and production. The contributors examine State Department negotiations over the content of American films shown abroad; analyze the star image of Clara Smith Hamon, who was notorious for having murdered her lover; and consider film journalists' understanding of the arrival of auteurist cinema in Hollywood as it was happening during the early 1970s. One contributor chronicles the development of film studies as a scholarly discipline; another offers a sociopolitical interpretation of the origins of film noir. Still another brings to light Depression-era film reviews and Production Code memos so sophisticated in their readings of representations of sexuality that they undermine the perception that queer interpretations of film are a recent development. Looking Past the Screen suggests methods of historical research, and it encourages further thought about the modes of inquiry that structure the discipline of film studies.Contributors. Mark Lynn Anderson, Janet Bergstrom, Richard deCordova, Kathryn Fuller-Seeley, Sumiko Higashi, Jon Lewis, David M. Lugowski, Dana Polan, Eric Schaefer, Andrea Slane, Eric Smoodin, Shelley Stamp

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822390138
• Artikelnr.: 54926137

Autorenporträt

Jon Lewis and Eric Smoodin, eds.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: The History of Film History / Eric Smoodin 1
I. Institutional Histories 35
The Beginning of American Film Study / Dana Polan 37
The Perfect Money Machine(s): George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and Auteurism
in the New Hollywood / Jon Lewis 61
II. Star Studies 87
Lois Weber and the Celebrity of Matronly Respectability / Shelley Stamp 89
Tempting Fate: Clara Smith Hamon, or, The Secretary as Producer / Mark Lynn
Anderson 117
The Crafting of a Political Icon: Lola Lola on Paper / Andrea Slane 151
III. Regulation 167
Going Hollywood Sooner or Later: Chinese Censorship and The Bitter Tea of
General Yen / Eric Smoodin 169
Plain Brown Wrapper: Adult Films for the Home Market, 1930-1969 / Eric
Schaefer 201
IV. Reception 227
Ethnography and Exhibition: The Child Audience, The Hays Office, and
Saturday Matinees / Richard deCordova 229
Dish Night at the Movies: Exhibitor Promotions and Female Audiences during
the Great Depression / Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley 246
“A Treatise on Decay”: Liberal and Leftist Critics and Their Queer Readings
of Depression-Era U.S. Film / David M. Lugowski 276
V. Production 301
Murnau in America: Chronicle of Lost Films (4 Devils, City Girl) / Janet
Bergstrom 303
The American Origins of Film Noir: Realism in Urban Art and The Naked City
/ Sumiko Higashi 353
Bibliography 381
Contributors 397
Index 401