100 Years of American Film

Name: 100 Years of American Film
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ISBN: 9780028653808

ISBN-10: 0028653807

ISBN-13: 9780028653808

Edition: 2000

Authors: Frank E. Beaver

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With extensive cross-references and bibliographies, this volume presents a subset of articles from the Twayne Filmmakers Series, the GK Hall Directors Series and the Encyclopedia of American Cinema.

Book details

List price: $130.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: PTG Software
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 700
Size: 9.00" wide x 11.50" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 4.598
Language: English

Preface	p. xvii
Introduction	p. xix
Academy of Motion Pictures	p. 1
Acting	p. 2
Actualite	p. 3
Adaptation	p. 4
African Queen, The	p. 5
All About Eve	p. 8
All Quiet on the Western Front	p. 10
Allen, Woody	p. 13
Altman, Robert	p. 16
Amadeus	p. 19
American Graffiti	p. 21
American in Paris, An	p. 23
Anderson, Lindsay	p. 26
Animation	p. 28
Annie Hall	p. 29
Anthology Film	p. 32
Apartment, The	p. 33
A-Picture	p. 35
Art Theater	p. 35
Fred Astaire	p. 36
Auteur (Criticism)	p. 37
Avant-Garde	p. 38
Bara, Theda	p. 41
Lauren Bacall	p. 43
Belasco Tendency	p. 44
Ben-Hur	p. 44
Best Years of Our Lives, The	p. 46
Ingrid Bergman	p. 47
Birth of a Nation, The	p. 50
Humphrey Bogart	p. 53
Blaxploitation Film	p. 54
Bonnie and Clyde	p. 54
Bow, Clara	p. 57
Marlon Brando	p. 60
B-Picture	p. 62
Breakfast at Tiffany's	p. 62
Brenon, Herbert	p. 65
Bridge on the River Kwai, The	p. 68
Bringing up Baby	p. 69
Brooks, Louise	p. 71
Brooks, Mel	p. 74
Buddy Films	p. 76
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	p. 77
Camera Movement	p. 81
Camera Obscura	p. 81
James Cagney	p. 82
Capra, Frank	p. 83
Casablanca	p. 86
Censorship	p. 89
Chaney, Lon	p. 90
Chaplin, Charlie	p. 92
Chinatown	p. 96
Cinema Verite	p. 99
Cinematographer (Director of Photography)	p. 100
Citizen Kane	p. 101
City Lights	p. 104
Clay Animation	p. 106
Clockwork Orange, A	p. 107
Close Encounters of the Third Kind	p. 109
Comedy	p. 113
Composition	p. 114
Sean Connery	p. 115
Gary Cooper	p. 116
Coppola, Francis Ford	p. 118
Corman, Roger	p. 120
Costume Film	p. 123
Criticism	p. 124
Tom Cruise	p. 124
Cruze, James	p. 125
Cukor, George	p. 127
Cult Film	p. 131
Cultural Criticism/Cultural Studies	p. 131
Daguerreotype	p. 133
Dances With Wolves	p. 133
Davies, Marion	p. 135
Deer Hunter, The	p. 137
Bette Davis	p. 138
Demille, Cecil B.	p. 141
Doris Day	p. 141
Robert de Niro	p. 143
Detective Film	p. 145
Diegesis/Diegetic Sound	p. 145
Director	p. 146
Disaster Film	p. 147
Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb	p. 147
Doctor Zhivago	p. 151
Documentary	p. 153
Double Indemnity	p. 154
Drive-in Theater	p. 157
Faye Dunaway	p. 158
Duck Soup	p. 159
E.T.: The Extraterrestrial	p. 161
Clint Eastwood	p. 163
Easy Rider	p. 165
Ebert Roger	p. 167
Editor	p. 169
Epic	p. 169
Expanded Cinema	p. 170
Experimental Film	p. 170
Expressionism	p. 171
Fairbanks, Douglas	p. 173
Fantasia	p. 175
Fantasy	p. 177
Fargo	p. 177
Feature Film	p. 179
Film Noir	p. 180
Sally Field	p. 180
Errol Flynn	p. 181
Jane Fonda	p. 183
Foley Artist	p. 184
Ford, John	p. 184
Harrison Ford	p. 185
Forrest Gump	p. 188
Frankenstein	p. 190
French Connection, The	p. 193
From Here to Eternity	p. 195
Futurism	p. 198
Gangster Film	p. 199
Clark Gable	p. 200
Greta Garbo	p. 202
Gaze (Look)	p. 203
Genre	p. 203
Judy Garland	p. 204
Giant	p. 205
Gilbert, John	p. 208
Gish, Lillian	p. 209
Godfather, The	p. 211
Godfather: Part II, The	p. 217
Gold Rush, The	p. 221
Goldwyn, Samuel	p. 223
Gone with the Wind	p. 226
Goodfellas	p. 229
Graduate, The	p. 231
Grapes of Wrath, The	p. 234
Griffith, D. W.	p. 236
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner	p. 240
Alec Guinness	p. 243
Hairspray	p. 245
Gene Hackman	p. 246
Tom Hanks	p. 248
Harold and Maude	p. 249
Hawks, Howard	p. 251
Audrey Hepburn	p. 253
Katharine Hepburn	p. 254
High Noon	p. 255
Charlton Heston	p. 258
Hill, George Roy	p. 260
Hitchcock, Alfred	p. 262
Dustin Hoffman	p. 266
Horror Film	p. 267
Huston, John	p. 268
Anthony Hopkins	p. 268
Helen Hunt	p. 270
Holly Hunter	p. 271
Ince, Thomas H.	p. 273
Independent Filmmaker/Film	p. 274
Ingram, Rex	p. 274
It Happened One Night	p. 276
It's a Wonderful Life	p. 279
Jaws	p. 283
Jazz Singer, The	p. 286
Jurassic Park	p. 288
Kael, Pauline	p. 291
Kazan, Elia	p. 292
Keaton, Buster	p. 296
Diane Keaton	p. 299
King Kong	p. 300
Grace Kelly	p. 302
Kubrick, Stanley	p. 304
Lawrence of Arabia	p. 309
Jessica Lange	p. 310
Lean, David	p. 312
Lighting	p. 316
Vivien Leigh	p. 316
Lloyd, Harold	p. 318
Location Shooting (Picture)	p. 320
Losey, Joseph	p. 320
Lubitsch, Ernst	p. 324
Lucas, George	p. 325
Lumet, Sidney	p. 329
Lupino, Ida	p. 332
Lynch, David	p. 335
MAS*H	p. 339
Macguffin (McGuffin)	p. 340
Magic Lantern	p. 341
Maltese Falcon, The	p. 341
Maltin, Leonard	p. 345
Manchurian Candidate, The	p. 347
Mankiewicz, Joseph	p. 350
Mann, Anthony	p. 353
Mathis, June	p. 356
Melodrama	p. 358
Method Actor	p. 359
Metonymy	p. 359
Midnight Cowboy	p. 360
Milestone, Lewis	p. 363
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington	p. 365
Mix, Tom	p. 367
Marilyn Monroe	p. 369
Modern Times	p. 372
Montage	p. 373
Murnau, F. W.	p. 377
Music (Film Music)	p. 379
Musical Film	p. 381
Mutiny on the Bounty	p. 383
My Fair Lady	p. 385
My Own Private Idaho	p. 387
Mystery-Thriller	p. 388
Negri, Pola	p. 389
Neilan, Marshall	p. 391
Neorealism (Italian)	p. 392
Network	p. 393
New American Cinema	p. 396
Newspapers	p. 396
Newsreel	p. 398
Nichols, Mike	p. 398
Nickelodeon	p. 401
Jack Nicholson	p. 402
North by Northwest	p. 403
On the Waterfront	p. 405
Laurence Olivier	p. 406
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	p. 409
Patton	p. 413
Al Pacino	p. 416
Peckinpah, Sam	p. 417
Philadelphia Story, The	p. 420
Pickford, Mary	p. 423
Place in the Sun, A	p. 424
Platoon	p. 428
Sidney Poitier	p. 431
Polanski, Roman	p. 432
Pollack, Sydney	p. 435
Postmodernism	p. 438
Prequel	p. 438
Producer (Film)	p. 439
Prologue Presentations	p. 439
Psycho	p. 441
Psychoanalysis and Cinema	p. 443
Psychodrama	p. 443
Pulp Fiction	p. 444
Raging Bull	p. 447
Raiders of the Lost Ark	p. 449
Rating System	p. 452
Ray, Nicholas	p. 453
Realist Cinema	p. 455
Rear Window	p. 456
Rebel Without a Cause	p. 458
Robert Redford	p. 461
Reid, Wallace	p. 462
Remake	p. 464
Julia Roberts	p. 465
Road Picture	p. 466
Rocky	p. 466
Rocky Horror Picture Show, the	p. 469
Roeg, Nicolas	p. 471
Ginger Rogers	p. 474
Rudolph, Alan	p. 476
Meg Ryan	p. 479
Saving Private Ryan	p. 481
Susan Sarandon	p. 484
Scarface	p. 485
Schindler's List	p. 489
Science-Fiction Film (Sci-Fi Film)	p. 492
Scorsese, Martin	p. 493
Screen Actors Guild	p. 495
Screwball Comedy	p. 497
Searchers, the	p. 497
Sennett, Mack	p. 500
Sequel	p. 502
Serial	p. 503
Shane	p. 504
Shorts (Short Subjects)	p. 507
Silence of the Lambs, the	p. 507
Singin' in the Rain	p. 512
Siskel, Gene	p. 515
Slapstick Comedy	p. 516
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs	p. 517
Some Like it Hot	p. 519
Sound	p. 521
Sound of Music, the	p. 528
Special-Effects Film	p. 531
Spectacle	p. 531
Spielberg, Steven	p. 532
Stagecoach	p. 535
Star System	p. 538
Star Wars	p. 538
Stereoscopic Viewer	p. 542
James Stewart	p. 542
Stone, Oliver	p. 544
Streetcar Named Desire, A	p. 546
Meryl Streep	p. 547
Structuralism	p. 551
Studio Picture	p. 551
Sunset Boulevard	p. 552
Surrealism	p. 554
Swanson, Gloria	p. 555
Talmadge, Norma	p. 559
Taxi Driver	p. 560
Elizabeth Taylor	p. 562
Technicolor	p. 563
Thalberg, Irving	p. 564
Third Man, the	p. 567
Three-Dimensional Film	p. 569
Titanic	p. 570
To Kill A Mockingbird	p. 573
Tootsie	p. 576
Tourneur, Maurice	p. 578
Spencer Tracy	p. 580
Trade Papers	p. 582
Trainspotting	p. 583
Treasure of the Sierra Madre, the	p. 585
2001: A Space Odyssey	p. 589
Underground Film	p. 593
Unforgiven	p. 593
Valentino, Rudolph	p. 597
Vertigo	p. 599
Vidor, King	p. 601
Vitaphone	p. 603
Von Sternberg, Josef	p. 608
Von Stroheim, Erich	p. 610
War Film	p. 613
Weber, Lois	p. 616
John Wayne	p. 617
Welles, Orson	p. 620
West Side Story	p. 623
Western	p. 626
White, Pearl	p. 627
Wild Bunch, the	p. 629
Wilder, Billy	p. 632
Wizard of oz, the	p. 635
Writer (Screen)	p. 638
Natalie Wood	p. 639
Wuthering Heights	p. 640
Wyler, William	p. 642
Yankee Doodle Dandy	p. 647
Zoetrope (Wheel of Life)	p. 651
Academy Award Winners	p. 653
Film Facts	p. 689
Glossary	p. 701
Suggested Reading List	p. 739
Index	p. 807
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