As an awkward teenager in suburban Arizona, Steven Spielberg passed his time in a fantasy world of his own creation--making films of all genres and lengths, from 8-minute Westerns to 2 hour long epics--on his amateur camera equipment. Now, of course, Spielberg is a household name, having invented the Hollywood blockbuster with 1975's JAWS, as well ...
Few films in the history of American cinema caused more intense critical discussion and greater emotional debate than Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde. This provocative portrayal of Depression-era life on the run, delivered with visual panache and a hip sensibility, ushered in what came to be categorized as 'the New American Cinema'. Focusing on a ...
The authors delve into the ways that the experiences of such noted Jewish directors as Woody Allen, Sidney Lumet, Paul Mazursky, and Mel Brooks have affected contemporary filmmaking in America. Photographs.
Medicine and the media exist in a unique symbiosis. Increasingly, health-care consumers turn to media sources - from news reports to web sites to TV shows - for information about diseases, treatments, pharmacology, and important health issues. And just as the media scour the medical terrain for news stories and plot lines, those in the health-care ...
Features essays that approach Peter Pan from literary, dramatic, film, television, and sociological perspectives and, in the process, analyzes his emergence and preservation in the cultural imagination.
Steven Spielberg is the director or producer of over one third of the thirty highest grossing films of all time, yet most film scholars dismiss him as little more than a modern P. T. Barnum - a technically gifted and intellectually shallow showman who substitutes spectacle for substance. To date, no book has attempted to analyze the components of ...
Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Sidney Lumet, and Paul Mazursky, all sons of East European Jews, remain among the most prominent contemporary American film directors. In this revised, updated second edition of "American Jewish Filmmakers", David Desser and Lester D. Friedman demonstrate how the Jewish experience gives rise to an intimately linked series ...
A smug glance at the seventies-the so-called "Me Decade"-unveils a kaleidoscope of big hair, blaring music, and broken politics-all easy targets for satire, cynicism, and ultimately even nostalgia. American Cinema of the 1970s, however, looks beyond the strobe lights to reveal how profoundly the seventies have influenced American life and how the ...
This work presents an insight into the 1967 film "Bonnie and Clyde". The film is said to have changed American cinema, reinvigorating the gangster genre with European, New Wave techniques and a radically candid view of sex and violence.
The research, analysis and arguments in this book deliver a collection of essays by some of the most important writers in the field of film studies. "British Cinema and Thatcherism" is an informed and provocative analysis of the connections between British film in the 1980s and the policies and political ideology of the Conservative government of ...
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