Looking past the screen : case studies in American film history and method / edited by Jon Lewis and Eric Smoodin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lewis, Jon, 1955-

Smoodin, Eric Loren.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--United States--History.

Motion pictures.

Film criticism--United States--History.

Film criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (425 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A collection of essays illustrating new methods and theories of film history.

Contents:

The beginnings of American film study / Dana Polan

The perfect money machine(s) : George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and auteurism in the new Hollywood / Jon Lewis

Lois Weber and the celebrity of matronly respectability / Shelley Stamp

Tempting fate : Clara Smith hamon, or The secretary as producer / Mark Lynn Anderson

The crafting of a political icon : Lola Lola on paper / Andrea Slane

Going Hollywood sooner or later : Chinese censorship and The bitter tea of General Yen / Eric Smoodin

Plain brown wrapper : adult films for the home market, 1930-1969 / Eric Schaefer

Ethnography and exhibition : the child audience, the Hays office, and Saturday matinees / Richard deCordova

Dish night at the movies : exhibitor promotions and female audiences during the Great Depression / Kathy H. Fuller-Seeley

"A treatise on decay" : liberal and leftist critics and their queer readings of Depression-era U.S. film / David M. Lugowski

Murnau in America : chronicle of lost films (4 devils, City girl) / Janet Bergstrom

The American origins of film noir : realism in urban art and The naked city / Sumiko Higashi.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-396) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-92344-7

9786612923449

0-8223-9013-2

OCLC:

245538676