American Cinema/American Culture

Name: American Cinema/American Culture
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ISBN: 9780073535098

ISBN-10: 0073535095

ISBN-13: 9780073535098

Edition: 4th 2013

Authors: John Belton

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American Cinema/American Culturelooks at the interplay between American cinema and mass culture from the 1890s to 2011. It begins with an examination of the basic narrative and stylistic features of classical Hollywood cinema. It then studies the genres of silent melodrama, the musical, American comedy, the war/combat film, film noir, the western, and the horror and science fiction film, investigating the way in which movies shape and are shaped by the larger cultural concerns of the nation as a whole. The book concludes with a discussion of post World War II Hollywood, giving separate chapter coverage to the effects of the Cold War, 3D, television, the counterculture of the 1960s,…

Book details

List price: $177.67
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Publication date: 1/11/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.518
Language: English



Preface


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 Postwar History



Hollywood and the Cold War



Hollywood in the Age of Television



The 1960s: The Counterculture Strikes Back



The Film School Generation



Into the Twenty-First Century


Glossary of Technical and Other Terms


Index