"America on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in the Movies" is a lively introduction to issues of diversity as represented within the American cinema. The first synthetic and historical text of its kind, "America on Film" provides a comprehensive overview of the industrial, socio-cultural, and aesthetic factors that contribute ...
In this Hollywood history, a professor of American studies analyzes several movies of the 1930s, illuminating how specific films and Hollywood events elevated the status of African-Americans in the film industry, prepared Americans for the consumer culture of the 1950s, and encouraged people to embrace government programs and policies.
Flush with delightfully useless--and sometimes even useful--information about sports, movies, music, politics, American and world history, and much more, this book is the most extensive reference guide in the series to date.
In this cultural history of the USA during World War II, Thomas Doherty examines the interaction between Hollywood cinema and America's involvement in the war. He reveals how and why Hollywood marshalled its artistic resources on behalf of the war effort, giving a voice to many different groups' viewpoints: the motion picture industry itself; ...
"The Producer's Business Handbook" provides a model for making a successful business of independent filmmaking. It will give you a comprehensive understanding of the business of entertainment and supply you with the information and tools you'll need to successfully engage all related aspects of global production and exploitation. The handbook also ...
Over 40 revealing celebrity profiles highlight the motion picture stars who served in the U.S. Marine Corps from World War I through Vietnam, including Tyrone Power, Sterling Hayden, Steve McQueen, Gene Hackman, Harvey Keitel, Brian Dennehy and Lee Marvin. 101 photos.
Fully revised and updated, here is an intelligent ground-breaking volume that examines Hollywood's negative portrayal of Muslim Arabs. First published in 2001, this landmark volume lays out and dissects a defamatory history dating from cinema's pioneering days to contemporary Hollywood blockbusters perpetuating the vision of Kalashnikov-wielding, ...
A longtime industry insider and acclaimed Hollywood historian goes behind the scenes to tell the stories of 15 of the most spectacular movie megaflops of the past 50 years, such as "Cleopatra", "The Cotton Club", and "Waterworld". He recounts, in every gory detail, how enormous hubris, unbridled ambition, artistic hauteur, and bad business sense ...
Originally published by Cape in 1985 and now available in paperback, a study of Hollywood which looks at the movie industry through a detailed examination of the making of HEAVEN'S GATE, a financially disastrous film, with discussion of budgets and management decisions, co-ordination of production, and the difficulties of producing a movie.
The film genre of screwball comedy--which includes THE LADY EVE, BRINGING UP BABY, and HIS GIRL FRIDAY--introduced a new type of character into American films, the fast-talking, and often verbally sophisticated, female. DiBattista's study examines this development, both in how it came about and how it changed film. Included are a number of ...
The script-writer's place in the Hollywood has traditionally been somewhere near the bottom of the food-chain, 'Below the heads of publicity but above the hairdressers' said screenwriter Donald Ogden Stewart. In this vastly entertaining book Marc Norman seeks to reverse that perception by tracing the whole history of the industry from the ...
This scholarly study explores the role of the Civil War in American cinema--both in well-known works such as THE BIRTH OF A NATION and in lesser known but equally important films--and also how perceptions of the war have been influenced by cinema.
"Miracles and Sacrilege" is the story of the epochal conflict between censorship and freedom in film, recounted through an in-depth analysis of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision striking down a government ban on Roberto Rossellini's film The Miracle (1950). In this extraordinary case, the Court ultimately chose to abandon its own longstanding ...
"Making Sense of Movies" is a film appreciation text that focuses on the Hollywood style of moviemaking to examine the aesthetic, historical, and theoretical aspects of film studies. The text focuses on a limited number of significant movies to provide greater depth of knowledge and understanding, gradually expanding the number of films with each ...
A masterly work of American film and cultural history by a critic who, "like Pauline Kael, has the gift of describing actors with terrific acuity. "-New York Times. "What I set out to do is to help you see movies better, to experience them more deeply and sharply and richly," says James Harvey. And his critical method-reading a movie moment by ...
This collection of essays, which originally appeared as a book in 1962, is virtually the complete works of an editor of Commentary magazine who died, at age 37, in 1955. Long before the rise of Cultural Studies as an academic pursuit, in the pages of the best literary magazines of the day, Robert Warshow wrote analyses of the folklore of modern ...
Terry's career, which spanned some 14 movies in addition to THE WIZARD OF OZ, provides the structure for this "autobiography," which also includes behind-the-scenes stories about shooting with her co-stars, working with other animals, and the rigors of training for a role.
A guide to the vehicles and vessels of the Star Wars universe, from Luke's battered Tatooine landspeeder to the prototype of the Empire's second Death Star. The book contains background details, histories, technical specifications, photographs, and cross-section drawings.
After a series of sex scandals rocked the film industry in 1922, movie moguls hired Will Hays to clear the image of movies. Hays tried a variety of ways to regulate movies before adopting what became known as the production code. Written in 1930 by a St Louis priest, the code stipulated that movies stress proper behaviour, respect for government, ...
This comprehensive introduction to Hollywood cinema provides a fascinating account of the world's most powerful film industry and examines its cultural and aesthetic significance. Taking a wide-ranging approach, and spotlighting such films as A Star is Born, Singing in the Rain, Forrest Gump, and Titanic, it explores and interprets Hollywood ...
Since the explosion in low-budget filmmaking in the 1960s, the 'independent' film scene has produced some of the most innovative and successful films of recent years, from sy Rider to e Blair Witch Project . But how independent is independent cinema today? And what are the artistic and economic concerns that separate it form Hollywood? ...
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