Author: American Film InstitutePublisher:
ISBN: 9780520079083
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States
Author: American Film InstitutePublisher:
ISBN: 9780520079083
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Within Our Gates
Author: Alan GevinsonPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520209640
Category : Minorities in motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 1588
Book Description
"[These volumes] are endlessly absorbing as an excursion into cultural history and national memory."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
The 1931-1940: American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States
Author: American Film InstitutePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520079083
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1198
Book Description
"The entire field of film historians awaits the AFI volumes with eagerness."--Eileen Bowser, Museum of Modern Art Film Department Comments on previous volumes: "The source of last resort for finding socially valuable . . . films that received such scant attention that they seem 'lost' until discovered in the AFI Catalog."--Thomas Cripps "Endlessly absorbing as an excursion into cultural history and national memory."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
AFI Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States
Author: American Film InstitutePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520215214
Category : Films
Languages : en
Pages : 1464
Book Description
The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films
Author: American Film InstitutePublisher:
ISBN: 9780520209701
Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 1268
Book Description
The Survival of American Silent Feature Films, 1912-1929
Author: David PiercePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
"Commissioned for and sponsored by the National Film Preservation Board."
The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States
Author: American Film InstitutePublisher:
ISBN: 9780520079083
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Main Street Movies
Author: Martin L. JohnsonPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253032547
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
"See yourself in the movies!" Prior to the advent of the home movie camera and the ubiquitousness of the camera phone, there was the local film. This cultural phenomenon, produced across the country from the 1890s to the 1950s, gave ordinary people a chance to be on the silver screen without leaving their hometowns. Through these movies, residents could see themselves in the same theaters where they saw major Hollywood motion pictures. Traveling filmmakers plied their trade in small towns and cities, where these films were received by locals as being part of the larger cinema experience. With access to the rare film clips under discussion, Main Street Movies documents the diversity and longevity of local film production and examines how itinerant filmmakers responded to industry changes to keep sponsors and audiences satisfied. From town pride films in the 1910s to Hollywood knockoffs in the 1930s, local films captured not just images of local people and places but also ideas about the function and meaning of cinema that continue to resonate today.
The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States
Author: American Film InstitutePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520209695
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1712
Book Description
After more than fifteen years, this initial volume of the American Film Institute Catalog series is again in print. The 1920s set covers the important filmmaking period when "movies" became "talkies," and the careers of many influential directors and actors were launched. Films such as Wings, The Phantom of the Opera, All Quiet on the Western Front, and The Jazz Singer are included in this volume.
Hollywood Vault
Author: Eric HoytPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520282647
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Hollywood Vault is the story of how the business of film libraries emerged and evolved, spanning the silent era to the sale of feature libraries to television. Eric Hoyt argues that film libraries became valuable not because of the introduction of new technologies but because of the emergence and growth of new markets, and suggests that studying the history of film libraries leads to insights about their role in the contemporary digital marketplace. The history begins in the mid-1910s, when the star system and other developments enabled a market for old films that featured current stars. After the transition to films with sound, the reissue market declined but the studios used their libraries for the production of remakes and other derivatives. The turning point in the history of studio libraries occurred during the mid to late 1940s, when changes in American culture and an industry-wide recession convinced the studios to employ their libraries as profit centers through the use of theatrical reissues. In the 1950s, intermediary distributors used the growing market of television to harness libraries aggressively as foundations for cross-media expansion, a trend that continues today. By the late 1960s, the television marketplace and the exploitation of film libraries became so lucrative that they prompted conglomerates to acquire the studios. The first book to discuss film libraries as an important and often underestimated part of Hollywood history, Hollywood Vault presents a fascinating trajectory that incorporates cultural, legal, and industrial history.