American Cinema/American Culture

Name: American Cinema/American Culture
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ISBN: 9780073386157

ISBN-10: 0073386154

ISBN-13: 9780073386157

Edition: 3rd 2009

Authors: John Belton

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Description:

Ideal for Introduction to American Cinema courses, American Film History courses, and Introductory Film Appreciation courses focused on American Film, this text offers aculturalexamination of the American movie-making industry, with particular attention paid to the economic and aesthetic institution of Hollywood.

Book details

List price: $138.33
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Publication date: 11/10/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



Introduction



The Mode of Production



The Emergence of the Cinema as an Institution



Classical Hollywood Cinema: Narration



Classical Hollywood Cinema: Style



The Studio System



The Star System



Genre and The Genre System



Silent Film Melodrama



The Musical



American Comedy



War and Cinema



Film Noir: Somewhere in the Night



The Making of the West



Horror and Science Fiction



A Post-War History



Hollywood and the Cold War



Hollywood in the Age of Television



The 1960's: The Counterculture Strikes Back



The Film School Generation



Into the Twenty-First Century Glossary of Terms


Index