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American Film History : Selected Readings, 1960 to the Present.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lucia, Cynthia.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--United States--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (516 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Somerset : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2015.
- Contents:
- Intro
- American Film History
- The Editors
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Notes
- Part I 1960-1975
- 1 Setting the Stage
- Film Industry Decline and Transformation
- Cold War Anxiety
- Gender Roles and Sexual Mores in Early 1960s Hollywood
- "A Jumpin Jackpot of Melody": The Musical in the 1960s
- Gender, Race, and the American Family
- The Family According to Alfred Hitchcock
- The Star System in Transition
- A New Immorality
- The Avant-garde
- Independent Fiction and Nonfiction Film
- The New Hollywood
- Ethnic Heroes and Independent Women
- References
- 2 Adults Only
- AIP and Teenpic Exploitation
- Adults-Only Exploitation Films
- Note
- 3 Black Representation in Independent Cinema
- Integrationism
- Community
- Violence
- Freedom
- Conclusion
- 4 Cinema Direct and Indirect
- Drew Associates
- Maysles, Pennebaker, and Leacock
- Wiseman and Other Developments
- 5 Comedy and the Dismantling of the Hollywood Western
- How the West Was Won and Westerns on TV
- Cat Ballou and the Drunken Hero
- The Good Guys and the Bad Guys and the Aging Hero
- Sex and Masculinity in Paint Your Wagon
- 6 The New Hollywood
- Changes in the Film Industry
- A New Audience and a New Relationship to Cinema
- A Directors' Cinema
- Easy Rider, New Hollywood Style, and the Unmotivated Hero
- The New Hollywoods Class Performance
- Genre Revision and The Conversation
- The End of the (First) New Hollywood
- 7 "One Big Lousy X"
- Hollywood Renaissance
- The City in Decline
- Midnight Cowboy
- Immigrant City
- The Cowboy in New York
- The Crisis and Black New York
- The Urban Road Film
- 8 Nashville: Putting on the Show
- The Loser as Winner.
- Putting on the Show
- Nashville as the Stage for a Family Melodrama
- Altmans Mise-en-Scène
- A History of the Present: One-Dimensionality, Flatness, and the Spaces in Between
- Nashville and Vanitas: Country Musics Funereal Baroque
- 9 Cinema and the Age of Television, 1946-1975
- Transitions
- A Maturing Relationship
- Struggles for Control
- Part II 1976-1990
- 10 Setting the Stage
- Industry and Economics
- The Return of Vertical Integration
- Genre Cinema and Its Audiences - Trends and Cycles
- A Cinema of Spectacle
- Oedipus in a Time Machine
- Stars
- A Socially Engaged Cinema
- Writer-Directors and Other Auteurs
- Women in Hollywood
- Gay and Lesbian Representation and Queer Cinema
- Independent Film
- Avant-garde Cinema
- Documentary
- 11 Seismic Shifts in the American Film Industry
- Recovery (1976-1988)
- Resurgence (1989-1998)
- Reintegration and Retrenchment (1999-)
- 12 Independent Film
- Breakthrough and Consolidation: The Development of the "Indie" Recipe
- Case Study: Clerks (Kevin Smith, 1994)
- Crossing over (and Selling out?): Expansion, Incorporation, and the Blurring of Lines
- Case Study: Sideways
- Still Indie after All These Years: "Mumblecore" and Other Lower-Budget Productions
- Case Study: Primer
- 13 Reclaiming the Black Family
- Killer of Sheep: Redeeming the Everyday
- Daughters of the Dust: Imagining History
- 14 Feminism, Cinema, and Film Criticism
- Second Wave Feminism: The Context
- Feminist Film Criticism and History: Images of Women
- Feminist Film Criticism and History: Female Film Practitioners
- Feminist Film Criticism and History: Feminist Film Theory
- The Film Scene
- Feminist Documentaries
- Feminist Experimental Cinema.
- Womens Independent and Commercial Cinema
- Womens Cinema: Trickle-Down Feminism
- 15 American Avant-Garde Cinema from 1970 to the Present
- New Feminisms
- Ethnic Cinemas
- New Engagements with the Personal
- Recycled Cinema
- Home-Made Cinema and the Microcinema Movement
- Perceptual Retraining
- 16 A Reintroduction to the American Horror Film
- "An Introduction to the American Horror Film"
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and The Omen
- The Slasher Film
- Halloween and Spectacle Horror
- 17 Back to the Future
- Reagan Era Hollywood and the Battle of Good versus Evil
- Star Wars: Securing the Sons Future through the Past
- Back to the Future: Restoring the Fathers "Rightful" Place in the Present
- Know Thy Father, Find Thyself, and Save the World
- Time and the Triumph over Evil
- 18 "Stayin Alive"
- Overture: The Studio System Fades
- From Stage to Screen: The Show Musical
- Cabaret and Chicago: Fosse redefining and redefined
- Musicals in the Age of Postmodernism
- One from the Heart: Its Only a Paper Moon
- Gotta Dance: The Dance Film (or: You Should be Dancing, Yeah)
- Part III 1991 to the Present
- 19 Setting the Stage
- Independents in a Changing Industry
- A New Auteur Cinema
- Female Directors in Hollywood
- Black Filmmakers in Hollywood
- Hollywood in the New Millennium
- The Meaning of Movies: Universalizing Content for the Global Market
- Competing Screens and (not so) New Ways of Seeing
- Non-fiction and the Avant-garde
- American Film in the Twenty-first Century
- 20 The Queer 1990s
- Resistance
- Reaffirmation
- Regulation
- 21 24/7
- Cable Television as Aftermarket
- Production/Distribution
- Conclusion.
- Notes
- 22 Plasmatics and Prisons
- Prison Worlds and Liquid Metal
- "Theyre guarding all the doors and holding all the keys"
- Mutation and Morphological Becoming
- 23 Mainstream Documentary since 1999
- Interrogating Reality
- Moral Investigations
- 24 Truthiness Is Stranger than Fictition
- The "New Biopic" as Cultural Symptom
- The Biopic as Prestige Object, and Other Alternatives
- The "Old" Biopic in the US: A Brief History
- The "Old" Biopic as a Critical Form: International Influences
- The "New Biopic" as Recuperative Form: 1999-2008
- Shards of History: Ali
- Shards of Identity: Im Not There
- Against the "Fictition" of "Truthiness"
- 25 "Asia" as Global Hollywood Commodity
- Introduction
- "Asia" as Ethnicity
- "Asia" as Cinematic Smorgasbord
- Slumdog Millionaire: Bollywood Bombast Meets Political Paternalism
- The Karate Kid: Cross-Cultural Transmission
- 26 The Blockbuster Superhero
- The Evolution of Batman from the 1940s to the 2000s
- Narrative, Seriality, and Superhero Auteurism
- The Fallen Superhero
- Conclusion: From Market Synergies to Aesthetic Synergies
- 27 Limited Engagement
- The Soldier as Cinematographer
- Opening Shots: American Cinemas First Cycle of Violence
- The Soldier as Perpetrator - and Victim
- Operation Homecoming: The Veteran as Cipher
- An Audience of One
- 28 The Biggest Independent Pictures Ever Made
- Last of the Independents
- Realms of Reflexivity
- Bibliotechnologies
- From Library to Reboot
- Indy and the Indie
- 29 Writing American Film History
- Early Film Histories, 1926-1939
- From Kracauer to the 1960s
- The 1970s: Formative Years of Academic Film History
- Major Film History Projects.
- New Technologies, Awaiting New Paradigms
- Index
- EULA.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Lucia, Cynthia American Film History
- ISBN:
- 9781118475119
- OCLC:
- 959148016
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