American History On The Screen

Author : Wendy S. Wilson
Publisher : Walch Education
ISBN 13 : 9780825144516
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American History on the Screen written by Wendy S. Wilson and published by Walch Education. This book was released on 2002 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating guide to 14 movies that address U.S. history. Includes popular and important favorites, such as: The Patriot Dances with Wolves The Grapes of Wrath American Graffiti Glory Dr. Strangelove With bibliography, glossary, film analysis guide, plot synopses, reviews, lists of similarly themed films, and much more. (Note:Films are not included with this publication.)

Author : Wendy S. Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780825120008
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American History on the Screen written by Wendy S. Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gives you specific materials for 13 outstanding films ranging from 1776 to Dances with Wolves.

Author : I. Morgan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230117112
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Presidents in the Movies written by I. Morgan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-05-09 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cinematic depictions of real U.S. presidents from Abraham Lincoln to George W. Bush explore how Hollywood movies represent American history and politics on screen. Morgan and his contributors show how films blend myth and reality to present a positive message about presidents as the epitome of America's values and idealism until unpopular foreign wars in Vietnam and Iraq led to a darker portrayal of the imperial presidency, operated by Richard Nixon and Bush 43. This exciting new collection further considers how Hollywood has continually reinterpreted historically significant presidents, notably Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, to fit the times in which movies about them were made.

Author : M. Todd Bennett
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807835749
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One World, Big Screen written by M. Todd Bennett and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World War II coincided with cinema's golden age. Movies now considered classics were created at a time when all sides in the war were coming to realize the great power of popular films to motivate the masses. Through multinational research, One World,

Author : Natalie Zemon Davis
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307368858
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slaves on Screen written by Natalie Zemon Davis and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2011-03-04 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People have been experimenting with different ways to write history for 2,500 years, yet we have experimented with film in the same way for only a century. Noted professor and historian Natalie Zemon Davis, consultant for the film The Return of Martin Guerre, argues that movies can do much more than recreate exciting events and the external look of the past in costumes and sets. Film can show millions of viewers the sentiments, experiences and practices of a group, a period and a place; it can suggest the hidden processes and conflicts of political and family life. And film has the potential to show the past accurately, wedding the concerns of the historian and the filmmaker. To explore the achievements and flaws of historical films in differing traditions, Davis uses two themes: slavery, and women in political power. She shows how slave resistance and the memory of slavery are represented through such films as Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus, Steven Spielberg's Amistad and Jonathan Demme's Beloved. Then she considers the portrayal of queens from John Ford's Mary of Scotland and Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth to John Madden's Mrs. Brown and compares them with the cinematic treatments of Eva Peron and Golda Meir. This visionary book encourages readers to consider history films both appreciatively and critically, while calling historians and filmmakers to a new collaboration.

Author : John Alberti
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317650271
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Screen Ages written by John Alberti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-27 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Screen Ages is a valuable guide for students exploring the complex and vibrant history of US cinema and showing how this film culture has grown, changed and developed. Covering key periods from across American cinema history, John Alberti explores the social, technological and political forces that have shaped cinematic output and the varied impacts cinema of on US society. Each chapter has a series of illuminating key features, including: ‘Now Playing’, focusing on films as cinematic events, from The Birth of a Nation to Gone with the Wind to Titanic, to place the reader in the social context of those viewing the films for the first time ‘In Development’, exploring changing genres, from the melodrama to the contemporary super hero movies, ‘The Names Above and Below the Title’, portraying the impact and legacy of central figures, including Florence Lawrence, Orson Welles and Wes Anderson Case studies, analyzing key elements of films in more depth Glossary terms featured throughout the text, to aid non-specialist students and expand the readers understanding of changing screen cultures. Screen Ages illustrates how the history of US cinema has always been and continues to be one of multiple screens, audiences, venues, and markets. It is an essential text for all those wanting to understand of power of American cinema throughout history and the challenges for its future. The book is also supported by a companion website, featuring additional case studies, an interactive blog, a quiz bank for each chapter and an online chapter, ‘Screen Ages Today’ that will be updated to discuss the latest developments in American cinema.

Author : Janet Wasko
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 140519877X
Total Pages : 649 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Television written by Janet Wasko and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-12-21 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Television is a magisterial collection of 31 original essays that charter the field of television studies over the past century Explores a diverse range of topics and theories that have led to television’s current incarnation, and predict its likely future Covers technology and aesthetics, television’s relationship to the state, televisual commerce; texts, representation, genre, internationalism, and audience reception and effects Essays are by an international group of first-rate scholars For information, news, and content from Blackwell's reference publishing program please visit www.blackwellpublishing.com/reference/

Author : Sheri Chinen Biesen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231851138
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Film Censorship written by Sheri Chinen Biesen and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film Censorship is a concise overview of Hollywood censorship and efforts to regulate American films. It provides a lean introductory survey of U.S. cinema censorship from the pre-Code years and classic studio system Golden Age—in which film censorship thrived—to contemporary Hollywood. From the earliest days of cinema, movies faced controversy over screen images and threats of censorship. This volume draws extensively on primary research from motion picture archives to unveil the fascinating behind-the-scenes history of cinema censorship and explore how Hollywood responded to censorial constraints on screen content in a changing American cultural and industrial landscape. This primer on American film censorship considers the historical evolution of motion-picture censorship in the United States spanning the Jazz Age Prohibition era, lobbying by religious groups against Hollywood, industry self-censorship for the Hays Office, federal propaganda efforts during wartime, easing of regulation in the 1950s and 1960s, the MPAA ratings system, and the legacy of censorship in later years. Case studies include The Outlaw, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Scarface, Double Indemnity, Psycho, Bonnie and Clyde, Midnight Cowboy, and The Exorcist, among many others.

Author : Jon Lewis
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822390132
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Looking Past the Screen written by Jon Lewis and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-22 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 range of historical materials in developing interdisciplinary approaches to film stardom, regulation, reception, and production. The contributors examine State Department negotiations over the content of American films shown abroad; analyze the star image of Clara Smith Hamon, who was notorious for having murdered her lover; and consider film journalists’ understanding of the arrival of auteurist cinema in Hollywood as it was happening during the early 1970s. One contributor chronicles the development of film studies as a scholarly discipline; another offers a sociopolitical interpretation of the origins of film noir. Still another brings to light Depression-era film reviews and Production Code memos so sophisticated in their readings of representations of sexuality that they undermine the perception that queer interpretations of film are a recent development. Looking Past the Screen suggests methods of historical research, and it encourages further thought about the modes of inquiry that structure the discipline of film studies. Contributors. Mark Lynn Anderson, Janet Bergstrom, Richard deCordova, Kathryn Fuller-Seeley, Sumiko Higashi, Jon Lewis, David M. Lugowski, Dana Polan, Eric Schaefer, Andrea Slane, Eric Smoodin, Shelley Stamp

Author : Bernard F. Dick
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496805402
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Screen Is Red written by Bernard F. Dick and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2016-03-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Screen Is Red portrays Hollywood's ambivalence toward the former Soviet Union before, during, and after the Cold War. In the 1930s, communism combated its alter ego, fascism, yet both threatened to undermine the capitalist system, the movie industry's foundational core value. Hollywood portrayed fascism as the greater threat and communism as an aberration embraced by young idealists unaware of its dark side. In Ninotchka, all a female commissar needs is a trip to Paris to convert her to capitalism and the luxuries it can offer. The scenario changed when Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, making Russia a short-lived ally. The Soviets were quickly glorified in such films as Song of Russia, The North Star, Mission to Moscow, Days of Glory, and Counter-Attack. But once the Iron Curtain fell on Eastern Europe, the scenario changed again. America was now swarming with Soviet agents attempting to steal some crucial piece of microfilm. On screen, the atomic detonations in the Southwest produced mutations in ants, locusts, and spiders, and revived long-dead monsters from their watery tombs. The movies did not blame the atom bomb specifically but showed what horrors might result in addition to the iconic mushroom cloud. Through the lens of Hollywood, a nuclear war might leave a handful of survivors (Five), none (On the Beach, Dr. Strangelove), or cities in ruins (Fail-Safe). Today the threat is no longer the Soviet Union, but international terrorism. Author Bernard F. Dick argues, however, that the Soviet Union has not lost its appeal, as evident from the popular and critically acclaimed television series The Americans. More than eighty years later, the screen is still red.