Author: Scott MacDonaldPublisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 9781592134274
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Fascinating documentation of one of the most important film societies in American history.
Art in Cinema
Author: Scott MacDonaldPublisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 9781592134274
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Fascinating documentation of one of the most important film societies in American history.
Cinema 16
Author: Scott MacDonaldThe Film Society
Author: Jon Robin BaitzPublisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573662294
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Cinemas of the World
Author: James ChapmanPublisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1861895747
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
The cinema has been the pre-eminent popular art form of the 20th century. In Cinemas of the World, James Chapman examines the relationship between film and society in the modern world: film as entertainment medium, film as a reflection of national cultures and preoccupations, film as an instrument of propaganda. He also explores two interrelated issues that have recurred throughout the history of cinema: the economic and cultural hegemony of Hollywood on the one hand, and, on the other, the attempts of film-makers elsewhere to establish indigenous national cinemas drawing on their own cultures and societies. Chapman examines the rise to dominance of Hollywood cinema in the silent and early sound periods. He discusses the characteristic themes of American movies from the Depression to the end of the Cold War especially those found in the western and film noir – genres that are often used as vehicles for exploring issues central to us society and politics. He looks at national cinemas in various European countries in the period between the end of the First World War and the end of the Second, which all exhibit the formal and aesthetic properties of modernism. The emergence of the so-called "new cinemas" of Europe and the wider world since 1960 are also explored. "Chapman is a tough-thinking, original writer . . . an engaging, excellent piece of work."—David Lancaster, Film and History
Movies and American Society
Author: Steven J. RossPublisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 9780631219590
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
This outstanding collection of the best film history scholarship gathers recent essays and supporting documents to illustrate the power of movies to change, and be changed by, American society.
The Cinematic Mode of Production
Author: Jonathan BellerPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1611683823
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
A revolutionary reconceptualization of capital and perception during the twentieth century.
Cinema 16
Author: Scott MacdonaldPublisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 1439905304
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
The history of Cinema 16--the nation's first film society--through letters, programs, interviews, and the society's own documents.
Cinema and Society
Author: Ali KhanPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199402229
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The book presents a rich collection of critical essays, ethnographic writings, memoirs, and reflections, portraying a well-rounded picture of cinema culture and historical change in Pakistan. The multiplicity of voices and approaches enhances the appeal of this collection, which is the first ever to delineate the diversity in the cinematic and extra-cinematic traditions of Pakistan, as well as in the histories of production, exhibition, and reception. The work also highlights aesthetic and affective politics in relation to nationalism; Islamization in policy and practice; the biopolitics of morality, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality; and the phenomenology of film exhibition and urban formation. The book incorporates rarely seen nostalgia items, such as pictures of studio shootings, as well as of film actors, film scenes, posters, and lobby cards.
Cinema and Soviet Society from the Revolution to the Death of Stalin
Author: Peter KenezPublisher:
ISBN: 9780755604616
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
In this updated edition of his classic text, Kenez covers the roots of Soviet cinema in the film heritage of pre-Revolutionary Russia, tracing the changes generated by the Revolution of 1917.
Movies for the Masses
Author: Denise J. YoungbloodPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521466325
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This book is a pathbreaking study of the 'unknown' Soviet cinema: the popular movies which were central to Soviet film production in the 1920s. Professor Youngblood discusses acting genres, the cinema stars, audiences, and the influences of foreign films and examines three leading filmmakers - Iakov Protazanov, Boris Barnet, and Fridikh Ermler. She also looks at the governmental and industrial circumstances underlying filmmaking practices of the era, and provides an invaluable survey of the contemporary debates concerning official policy on entertainment cinema. Professor Youngblood demonstrates that the film culture of the 1920s was predominantly and aggressively 'bourgeois' and enjoyed patronage that cut across class lines and political allegiance. Thus, she argues, the extent to which Western and pre-revolutionary influences, boureois directors and middle-class tastes dominated the film world is as important as the tradition of revolutionary utopianism in understanding the transformation of Soviet culture in the Stalin revolution.