Looking Past the Screen Case Studies in American Film History and Method

Name: Looking Past the Screen Case Studies in American Film History and Method
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ISBN: 9780822338215

ISBN-10: 0822338211

ISBN-13: 9780822338215

Edition: 2007

Authors: Jon Lewis, Eric Smoodin

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Film scholarship has long been dominated by textual interpretations of specific films. "Looking Past the Screen" advances a more expansive American film studies in which cinema is understood to be a social, political, and cultural phenomenon extending far beyond the screen. Presenting a model of film studies in which films themselves are only one source of information among many, this volume brings together film histories that draw on primary sources including collections of personal papers, popular and trade journalism, fan magazines, studio publications, and industry records. Focusing on Hollywood cinema from the teens to the 1970s, these case studies show the value of this extraordinary…

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List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 10/22/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 424
Size: 6.22" wide x 9.17" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.276



Acknowledgments


Introduction: The History of Film History




Institutional Histories


The Beginnings of American Film Study



The Perfect Money Machine(s): George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and Auteurism in the New Hollywood




Star Studies


Lois Weber and the Celebrity of Matronly Respectability



Tempting Fate: Clara Smith Hamon, or, The Secretary as Producer



The Crafting of a Political Icon: Lola Lola on Paper




Regulation


Going Hollywood Sooner or Later: Chinese Censorship and The Bitter Tea of General Yen



Plain Brown Wrapper: Adult Films for the Home Market, 1930-1969




Reception


Ethnography and Exhibition: The Child Audience, The Hays Office, and Saturday Matinees



Dish Night At the Movies: Exhibitor Promotions and Female Audiences during the Great Depression



"A Treatise on Decay": Liberal and Leftist Critics and Their Queer Readings of Depression-Era U.S. Film




Production


Murnau in America: Chronicle of Lost Films (4 Devils, City Girl)



The American Origins of Film Noir: Realism in Urban Art and The Naked City



Bibliography


Contributors


Index