The Cinematic Challenge Filming Colonial America

Author : John P. Harty, Jr.
Publisher : Hillcrest Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1635051460
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cinematic Challenge: Filming Colonial America written by John P. Harty, Jr. and published by Hillcrest Publishing Group. This book was released on 2016 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did cinema largely ignore the colonial era and the Revolutionary War? The Cinematic Challenge asks this question and studies four films from the 1930s and 1940s to consider other queries, such as: How did Darryl F. Zanuck make a film about the American Revolution (Drums Along The Mohawk) without indicating that the British were the enemy? Why was Northwest Passage never completed? How did Cecil B. DeMille begin production on a film (Unconquered) based on a book that did not yet exist?In addition, we'll learn how accurate the depictions of colonial life were in each film and whether the political and economic climate affected the finished products.Volume one of The Cinematic Challenge also includes information about the general state of the film industry during this period, technological advancements, and rival theories about historical filmmaking, making it the most in-depth resource available today on colonial movies.

Author : John P. Harty Jr
Publisher : Langdon Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781545679838
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cinematic Challenge- Volume 2: Filming Colonia America written by John P. Harty Jr and published by Langdon Street Press. This book was released on 2019-12-26 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your guide to colonial films DURING THE TRANSFORMATION PERIOD OF THE AMERICAN CINEMA, 1950-1975 How did the collapse of the studio system and the rise of "independent" film companies affect the production of motion pictures about colonial America? The Cinematic Challenge seeks to answer this question and uses in-depth case studies of four films to reveal the shift in historical interpretation, which occurred during this period. In the process other queries will be addressed including: Did Walt Disney's Light in the Forest make a political statement about civil rights? What was the unique financial system producer Samuel Bronston developed in Spain to produce the naval epic John Paul Jones and establish his own film studio there? Why did the Hecht-Hill- Lancaster company select George Bernard Shaw's play The Devil's Disciple as a film project, when their company was on the brink of financial ruin? Why did Jack Warner decide to film the Broadway musical 1776 while our nation was being torn apart by the Vietnam war strategy? This study will indicate how accurate the depictions of colonial life were in each film and whether the modern political and economic climate affected the completed motion picture, making it the most in-depth resource available today on colonial films. Being a member of IATSE for nearly fifty years has given author John P. Harty. Jr. the opportunity to have an inside view of theater, television and film production, which combined with his love of history has led to the creation of The Cinematic Challenge series of books. He holds a bachelor's degree in history from St. Bonaventure University, a master's degree in political science from Fairleigh Dickinson University and has studied Russian and English history at the doctoral level at New York University.

Author : John P. Harty
Publisher : Langdon Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781662823381
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cinematic Challenge - Volume 3: Filming Colonial America the International Era 1976-2020 written by John P. Harty and published by Langdon Street Press. This book was released on 2022-01-15 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: YOUR GUIDE TO COLONIAL FILMS DURING THE INTERNATIONAL ERA, 1976-2000 With the death of the old Hollywood system, a new structure of global telecommunication networks rose in its place spearheaded by the independent multi-national production company, the million dollar actor and the bundle-master/talent agent. Could quality filmmaking about colonial America survive in this new corporate Hollywood, which advocated the use of global screenplays to attract world-wide audiences for their products? The Cinematic Challenge delves into this question and uses in-depth case studies of five films to considered: Was Hugh Hudson a self-indulgent perfectionist or an idealistic, visionary auteur when he filmed Revolution using an avant-garde non-linear approach to storytelling? Did Bruce Beresford 's Black Robe succeed in creating a unique adventure saga about a Jesuit priest pushed to the limits of his religious beliefs and physical endurance in the hostile interior of 17th century New France? How was Michael Mann's "re-imagining" of The Last of the Mohicans different from the James Fenimore Cooper novel and the 1936 film classic? Was Ted Turner successful in presenting a more balanced view of the Native Americans or did The Broken Chain only succeed in creating a new set of myths about an idyllic indigenous people corrupted by evil Europeans? How did Roland Emmerlich 's The Patriot manage to pass through development hell and become one of Columbia Pictures tentpole attractions for 2000? This study will explain to what degree each of the colonial films represented America's sociopolitical history and how the films encapsulated the state of mind of the American people at the time of their release, making it the most in-depth resource available today on this subject. Publication of volume 3 of The Cinematic Challenge completes author John P. Harty, Jr.'s decade-long desire to write a complete history of the films about colonial America produced in the 20th century. He holds a bachelor's degree in history, a master's degree in political science and has studied Russian and English history at the doctoral level at New York University.

Author : Richard Allen Gordon
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 1557535191
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cannibalizing the Colony written by Richard Allen Gordon and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The years 1992 and 2000 marked the 500-year anniversary of the arrival of the Spanish and the Portuguese in America and prompted an explosion of rewritings and cinematic renditions of texts and figures from colonial Latin America. Cannibalizing the Colony analyzes a crucial way that Latin American historical films have grappled with the legacy of colonialism. It studies how and why filmmakers in Brazil and Mexico -the countries that have produced most films about the colonial period in Latin America -appropriate and transform colonial narratives of European and indigenous contact into commentaries on national identity. The book looks at how filmmakers attempt to reconfigure history and culture and incorporate it into present-day understandings of the nation. The book additionally considers the motivations and implications for these filmic dialogues with the past and how the directors attempt to control the way that spectators understand the complex and contentious roots of identity in Mexico and Brazil.

Author : Bertil O. Österberg
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786450584
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colonial America on Film and Television written by Bertil O. Österberg and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early history of American settlement, pioneering, and independence is marked by fascinating characters and events often shrouded in legend. Filmmakers have sought to capture these characters, as diverse as Daniel Boone, Francis Marion and Pocahontas, and events, as disparate as the Lost Colony, the Boston Tea Party and the French and Indian War. This comprehensive filmography provides production information and commentary on all films and television episodes set during the years between the first settlements in the future United States and the fledgling country's War of 1812 with Britain. Films are arranged alphabetically, and a detailed introduction provides a thorough overview of the period, with references to films chronicling specific events.

Author : Janne Lahti
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000094456
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cinematic Settlers written by Janne Lahti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-26 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology adds to the burgeoning field of settler colonial studies by examining settler colonial narratives in the under analyzed medium of film. Cinematic Settlers discusses different cinematic genres, national traditions, and specific movies in order to expose related threads, shared circulations of knowledge, and paralleled representations. Organized into thematic groupings—conquest, settlers, natives, and space—the contributors explore the question of how film compares to written genres and other visual media in representing and effecting settler colonialism on a global scale. Striving for inclusiveness, the volume covers different eras and settler colonial situations in Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Hawaii, the American West, Canada, Latin America, Russia, France, Algeria, German Africa, South Africa, and even the next frontier: outer space. By showing how films offer layered, contested, and dynamic settler colonial narratives that advance and challenge settler hegemonic readings, the essays enable students to better analyze and understand the complex history of diversity and colonialism in film. This book is important reading for undergraduate classes on the history of empire, colonialism, and film.

Author : José B. Capino
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 145291527X
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dream Factories of a Former Colony written by José B. Capino and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nick Deocampo
Publisher : Anvil Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 971272896X
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Film written by Nick Deocampo and published by Anvil Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-11-09 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a sequel to Cine: Spanish Influences on Early Cinema in the Philippines, and part of Nick Deocampo’s extensive research on Philippine cinema. Tracing the beginnings of motion pictures from its Spanish roots, this book advances Deocampo’s scholarly study of cinema’s evolution in the hands of Americans.

Author : Priya Jaikumar
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478005599
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where Histories Reside written by Priya Jaikumar and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Where Histories Reside Priya Jaikumar examines eight decades of films shot on location in India to show how attending to filmed space reveals alternative timelines and histories of cinema. In this bold “spatial” film historiography, Jaikumar outlines factors that shape India's filmed space, from state bureaucracies and commercial infrastructures to aesthetic styles and neoliberal policies. Whether discussing how educational shorts from Britain and India transform natural landscapes into instructional lessons or how Jean Renoir’s The River (1951) presents a universal human condition through the particularities of place, Jaikumar demonstrates that the history of filming a location has always been a history of competing assumptions, experiences, practices, and representational regimes. In so doing, she reveals that addressing the persistent question of “what is cinema?” must account for an aesthetics and politics of space.

Author : Cynthia Lucia
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118475178
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Film History written by Cynthia Lucia and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative collection of introductory and specialized readings explores the rich and innovative history of this period in American cinema. Spanning an essential range of subjects from the early 1900s Nickelodeon to the decline of the studio system in the 1960s, it combines a broad historical context with careful readings of individual films. Charts the rise of film in early twentieth-century America from its origins to 1960, exploring mainstream trends and developments, along with topics often relegated to the margins of standard film histories Covers diverse issues ranging from silent film and its iconic figures such as Charlie Chaplin, to the coming of sound and the rise of film genres, studio moguls, and, later, the Production Code and Cold War Blacklist Designed with both students and scholars in mind: each section opens with an historical overview and includes chapters that provide close, careful readings of individual films clustered around specific topics Accessibly structured by historical period, offering valuable cultural, social, and political contexts Contains careful, close analysis of key filmmakers and films from the era including D.W. Griffith, Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Erich von Stroheim, Cecil B. DeMille, Don Juan, The Jazz Singer, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, Scarface, Red Dust, Glorifying the American Girl, Meet Me in St. Louis, Citizen Kane, Bambi, Frank Capra’s Why We Fight series, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, Rebel Without a Cause, Force of Evil, and selected American avant-garde and underground films, among many others. Additional online resources such as sample syllabi, which include suggested readings and filmographies for both general specialized courses, will be available online. May be used alongside American Film History: Selected Readings, 1960 to the Present, to provide an authoritative study of American cinema through the new millennium