The Routledge Companion to American Film History (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Wojcik, Pamela Robertson; Massood, Paula J.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Presenting new and diverse scholarship, this collection brings together original essays that explore American film history from a fresh perspective.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 442
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040303979
• Artikelnr.: 72615855

Autorenporträt

Pamela Robertson Wojcik is the Andrew V. Tackes Professor in Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame, USA; a Guggenheim Fellow; and former President of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. She is the author most recently of Unhomed: Cycles of Mobility and Placelessness in American Cinema (2024). Paula J. Massood is Professor of Screen Studies at Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema at Brooklyn College, CUNY, USA. She is the author of Black City Cinema: African American Urban Experiences in Film (2003) and Making a Promised Land: Harlem in 20th-Century Photography and Film (2013), editor of The Spike Lee Reader (2007), and co-editor of Media Crossroads: Intersections of Space and Identity in Screen Cultures (2021).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: American Film History as a Multiplicity Pamela Robertson
Wojcik and Paula J. Massood Part I: Alternate Archives 1. Cinema's Playful
Objects: On Toys and the Movies 2. Finding Its Voice? Sound and the
(Re)-writing of Film History 3. Doing Disney History Despite Disney 4.
Doing Bad Film History: Lessons on Archive and Method from John Waters
Part II: Hidden Labor 5. Heroes, Villains, or Collaborators: The Place of
Hollywood Unions in American Film Industry History 6. 'Students Will Be
Participants': Designing Working-Class Film Education at The Harry Alan
Potamkin Film SchoolMcKayla Sluga 7. The Reticent Close-Up: Editing and
Understatement in the Films of Barbara McLean Part III: Historicizing Style
8. Teaching Hollywood to Speak: Voice Culture and the Transition to Sound
9. Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe, and Method Acting: Between Art and
Commerce 10. New Pathways Toward a New Hollywood: Love with the Proper
Stranger Part IV: Racialized Technologies 11. Written Refusals: Oscar
Micheaux's Confrontations with the New York State Motion Picture Commission
12. Hollywood Color: Race, Aesthetics, Technology and 13. 'Basic Dark
Face': Writing the History of Makeup in Post-Civil Rights Hollywood Part V:
Histories of Fans and Spectators 14. Movie Stars Make News: Fan Magazines,
Print Culture, and American Film History of the Studio Era 15. 'I Want Big
Things:' Beauty Merchandising and Noir's 'Femme Fans'Shelley Stamp 16. Any
Given Sunday at La Cadena Metropolitana: Spanish-Language Theaters in Los
Angeles and the Influence of Film Exhibitors, 1963-2001 Part VI: Cinema's
Material Cultures 17. Early Motion Pictures' Cultures of PrintSarah
Gleeson-White 18. Histories of Exhibition and Spectatorship: Loss and
Imagination 19. The Stuff that Dreams Are Made Of: Re-Materializing
Spectatorship Studies Part VII: Transnational Production 20. Speculating a
Speculative History of Early Chinese American Film Culture 21. Neither
Invasion nor Americanization: A Short History of the French Film Industry
in Fort Lee 22. When Hollywood Came to Greece: 20th Century-Fox and the
Challenges of Turning a Small Country into a Runaway Film Production
Destination in the 1950s 23. The Quintessential Seventies Picture Show:
Voyage of the Damned (1976) as Heritage Film between Art Cinema and
Disaster FlickRoy Grundmann Part VIII: Intermedial Histories 24. Parabola:
Transhistorical Connections Between Experimental Film and Music Videos
25. From Home Movie Makers to Content Creators: Forging a Genealogy of
Self-Made Media 26. Webs of Stories: 21st Century Native American Film and
Television 27. 'Drawn to Life': Intermedial Promotion and the Monetization
of Film History in Disney and Cirque du Soleil Part IX: Movies as/in
History 28. 'Once Upon a Time...': Movies about Hollywood as Film History
29. A Netflix Original: History, Hollywood and Commemoration in the
Streaming Era 30. Acts of Recovery: Excavating Youth through the Detritus
of Film History Pamela Robertson Wojcik Part X: Historical Afterlives of
Cinema 31. In the Wake of Archival Rediscovery: The Afterlives of
Something Good-Negro Kiss (1898)Allyson Nadia Field 32. Rediscovered Again:
The Nonlinear Path of Alice Guy Blaché into US Film History 33. Casablanca
: Rethinking Film History Through the Old Classics 34. 'There's No More to
Say?': The Lives and Afterlives of Shirley Clarke's Portrait of Jason
Paula J. Massood