The Screening Of America

Author : James J Lorence
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315510278
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Screening America written by James J Lorence and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By combining the study of films with the text-based primary sources, Screening America gives students clear guidance in studying, interpreting, and understanding the motion picture's significance as a primary source in investigating U.S. History.Students will come to understand history as not only the record of what governments did, but also the way in which people lived their lives, experienced the wider world, and engaged in leisure pursuits, from which we can learn much about the society in which they lived.

Author : Tom O'Brien
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474287980
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Screening of America written by Tom O'Brien and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an original investigation of how movies have reflected and helped to shape the values of a generation. From All the President's Men to Wall Street, US films of the 1970s and 80s were a kaleidoscope of shifting values and contrasting moral viewpoints. Knowing that movies mirror the way we think we are – or would like to be – O'Brien focuses on the key values (or their absence) found in films from this period in order to see more clearly what Americans really cherished in life, and how these values have evolved or changed. Comprehensive and thought provoking, this book addresses how and why movies glamorized and portrayed certain professions; the changing role of women; the targeting of religion for satire; the addressing of environmental issues and film's representation of and engagement with history.

Author : Marlette Rebhorn
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Screening America written by Marlette Rebhorn and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1988 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using films to spark student interest in the past and encourage them to write about what really interests them is particularly appropriate as teachers confront a student population more visually than print oriented. This book sets key films in historical context, critiques them for accuracy, and relates material in the film to developments in American History. Instructor's guides provide suggested writing topics and relevant bibliography for students based on information presented in the film.

Author : Jon Wilkman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1635571057
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Screening Reality written by Jon Wilkman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A towering achievement, and a volume I know I'll be consulting on a regular basis.”-Leonard Maltin "Authoritative, accessible, and elegantly written, Screening Reality is the history of American documentary film we have been waiting for." --Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times film critic From Edison to IMAX, Ken Burns to virtual environments, the first comprehensive history of American documentary film and the remarkable men and women who changed the way we view the world. Amidst claims of a new “post-truth” era, documentary filmmaking has experienced a golden age. Today, more documentaries are made and widely viewed than ever before, illuminating our increasingly fraught relationship with what's true in politics and culture. For most of our history, Americans have depended on motion pictures to bring the realities of the world into view. And yet the richly complex, ever-evolving relationship between nonfiction movies and American history is virtually unexplored. Screening Reality is a widescreen view of how American “truth” has been discovered, defined, projected, televised, and streamed during more than one hundred years of dramatic change, through World Wars I and II, the dawn of mass media, the social and political turmoil of the sixties and seventies, and the communications revolution that led to a twenty-first century of empowered yet divided Americans. In the telling, professional filmmaker Jon Wilkman draws on his own experience, as well as the stories of inventors, adventurers, journalists, entrepreneurs, artists, and activists who framed and filtered the world to inform, persuade, awe, and entertain. Interweaving American and motion picture history, and an inquiry into the nature of truth on screen, Screening Reality is essential and fascinating reading for anyone looking to expand an understanding of the American experience and today's truth-challenged times.

Author : Allyson Nadia Field
Publisher : Duke University Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9781478004141
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film written by Allyson Nadia Field and published by Duke University Press Books. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although overlooked by most narratives of American cinema history, films made for purposes outside of theatrical entertainment dominated twentieth-century motion picture production. This volume adds to the growing study of nontheatrical films by focusing on the ways filmmakers developed and audiences encountered ideas about race, identity, politics, and community outside the borders of theatrical cinema. The contributors to Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film examine the place and role of race in educational films, home movies, industry and government films, anthropological films, and church films as well as other forms of nontheatrical filmmaking. From filmic depictions of Native Americans and films by 1920s African American religious leaders to a government educational film about the unequal treatment of Latin American immigrants, these films portrayed—for various purposes and intentions—the lives of those who were mostly excluded from the commercial films being produced in Hollywood. This volume is more than an examination of a broad swath of neglected twentieth-century filmmaking; it is a reevaluation of basic assumptions about American film culture and the place of race within it. Contributors. Crystal Mun-hye Baik, Jasmyn R. Castro, Nadine Chan, Mark Garrett Cooper, Dino Everett, Allyson Nadia Field, Walter Forsberg, Joshua Glick, Tanya Goldman, Marsha Gordon, Noelle Griffis, Colin Gunckel, Michelle Kelley, Todd Kushigemachi, Martin L. Johnson, Caitlin McGrath, Elena Rossi-Snook, Laura Isabel Serna, Jacqueline Najuma Stewart, Dan Streible, Lauren Tilton, Noah Tsika, Travis L. Wagner, Colin Williamson

Author : Robert A. Smith
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN 13 : 0323789544
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Update in Cancer Screening, An Issue of Medical Clinics of North America, E-Book written by Robert A. Smith and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This issue of Medical Clinics, guest edited by Dr. Robert A. Smith and Dr. Kevin Oeffinger, is devoted to Cancer Screening and Prevention. Articles in this important issue cover the development of cancer screening guidelines, implementing cancer screening in the clinical setting, and screening for colorectal, lung, cervical, prostate, skin, and ovarian cancer.

Author : Dushyant V Sahani
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN 13 : 0323549004
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imaging and Cancer Screening, An Issue of Radiologic Clinics of North America, E-Book written by Dushyant V Sahani and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This issue of Radiologic Clinics of North America focuses on Imaging and Cancer Screening, and is edited by Dr. Dushyant Sahani. Articles will include: Imaging and Screening of Thyroid Cancer; Imaging and Screening of Lung Cancer; Imaging and Screening of Breast Cancer; Imaging and Screening of Liver Cancer; Imaging and Screening of Cancer of the Gall Bladder and Bile Ducts; Imaging and Screening of Pancreatic Cancer; Imaging and Screening of Kidney Cancer; Imaging and Screening of Cancer of the Small Bowel; Imaging and Screening of Colon Cancer; Imaging and Screening of Ovarian Cancer; Imaging and Screening of Genetic Syndromes; and more!

Author : Martha Bayles
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300123388
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Through a Screen Darkly written by Martha Bayles and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why it is a mistake to let commercial entertainment serve as America's de facto ambassador to the world

Author : Jack Holland
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526134241
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fictional television and American politics written by Jack Holland and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-19 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the relationship between fictional television and American world politics in the period from 9/11 through to the presidency of Donald J. Trump. This period comprises a second golden age for fictional TV. The book therefore explores some of the best TV of all time across two decades of heightened political controversy.

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.