James Lorence

Screening America (eBook, ePUB)

United States History through Film since 1900

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

By combining the study of films with the text-based primary sources, Screening America gives students clear guidance in studying, interpreting, and understanding the motion picture's significance as a primary source in investigating U.S. History.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315510279
• Artikelnr.: 47137493

Autorenporträt

Lorence, James

Inhaltsangabe

Preface.Introduction: THE ANALYSIS OF PRIMARY SOURCES: AN INTRODUCTORY
COMMENT.I. PROGRESSIVE AMERICA: MILITANT REFORM AND POSTWAR REACTION. 1.
Social Protest: A Corner in Wheat (1909) as Muckraking Film. 2. Cultural
History Through a Cloudy Lens: The Birth of a Nation (1915) and the Racial
Climate of Progressive America. 3. Social Change and Sexual Politics:
Dancing Mothers (1926) and Moral Ambiguity in the Jazz Age. 4. The End of
Romantic War: All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) and Disillusionment in
the Interwar Era II. A NATION UNDER STRESS: FROM THE DEPTHS OF ECONOMIC
DESPAIR TO THE BRINK OF WAR. 5. Making It in Depression America: The
Streets or the Stage as Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) 6. The Resilient
People: The Grapes of Wrath (1940) Exposes Poverty in the Land of Plenty.
III. A DEMOCRACY OF WAR. 7. Thinking of Intervention: Foreign Correspondent
(1940) and the Winds of War. 8. Government Persuasion: Prelude to War
(1943), The Negro Soldier (1944), and the Issues of the War. 9. Social
Unity in a Nation at War: Since You Went Away (1944) and Women's
Mobilization for Victory. IV. COLD WAR AMERICA: DOMESTIC ANTICOMMUNISM AND
FEAR OF FAILURE. 10. Hollywood's Cold War: The Suppression of Salt of the
Earth (1954). 11. A Cautionary Tale: Dr. Strangelove as a Vision of Nuclear
Endgame. 12. The Alienation Films of the 1960s: Alice's Restaurant (1969),
The Graduate, and Social Fragmentation. V. LEGACIES: TOWARD MODERN AMERICA.
13. Worker Solidarity and Human Dignity: Norma Rae (1979) and Southern
Labor Activism. 14. Coming Home (1978): Vietnam and the Uncertain Future of
American Foreign Policy. 15. Unfinished Business: Do the Right Thing (1989)
and the Escalation of Social Tension. 16. Suburban Anxiety in Modern
America: American Beauty (1999) and the Pitfalls of Prosperity.<