Hollywood's America : Understanding History Through Film.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mintz, Steven.

Contributor:

Roberts, Randy W.

Welky, David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--In motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (447 pages)

Edition:

5th ed.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2016.

Contents:

Intro

Hollywood's America

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

Introduction

The Birth of Modern Culture

The revolt against Victorianism

The rise of mass communications

Commercialized leisure

The Birth of the Movies

The pre-history of motion pictures

American film in the silent era

The movies as a cultural battleground

The rise of Hollywood and the arrival of sound

Movies meet the Great Depression

Wartime Hollywood

Postwar Hollywood

New directions in postwar film

The "new" Hollywood

Recent Hollywood

PART 1 The Silent Era

Introduction Intolerance and the Rise of the Feature Film

1 Workers in Early Film

2 Silent Cinema as Historical Mythmaker

3 The Revolt Against Victorianism

4 Primary Sources

Edison v. American Mutoscope Company

US Circuit Court of Appeals for the Southern District of New York, 1902

"The Nickel Madness"

Barton W. Currie, Harpers Weekly, August 24, 1907

Mutual Film Corp. v. Industrial Commission of Ohio

United States Supreme Court, 1915

Boston Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1915

Analysis by Francis Hackett

Seeing Our Boys "Over There"

Literary Digest, June 8, 1918, pp. 28-29

PART 2 Hollywoods Golden Age

Introduction Backstage During the Great Depression: 42nd Street, Gold Diggers of 1933, and Footlight Parade

5 Depression America and Its Films

6 The Depressions Human Toll

The Gangster Cycle

The Fallen Woman Cycle

7 Depression Allegories

8 African Americans on the Silver Screen

9 Primary Sources

THE INTRODUCTION OF SOUND

"Pictures That Talk"

Photoplay, 1924

Review of Don Juan

Mordaunt Hall, The New York Times, 1926

"Silence is Golden"

Aldous Huxley, Golden Book Magazine, 1930

FILM CENSORSHIP

The Sins of Hollywood, 1922.

"The Don'ts and Be Carefuls"

Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, 1927

The Motion Picture Production Code of 1930

General Principles

WORKING PRINCIPLES

PRINCIPLES OF PLOT

PLOT MATERIAL

DETAILS OF PLOT, EPISODE, AND TREATMENT

GENERAL PRINCIPLES

PARTICULAR PRINCIPLES

PARTICULAR APPLICATIONS

The State Department on Hollywood in Germany, 1934

Records of the State Department, National Archives, College Park, MD

The State Department on Hollywood in Latin America, 1934

PART 3 Hollywood in the World War II Era

Introduction Hollywoods World War II Combat Films

10 Movies and Great Britain

11 Blockbuster as Propaganda

Summary of Casablanca

A Critical Examination of Casablanca

What biases or underlying assumptions animate the film?

How was the film received when it premiered in 1942?

Could Ilsa have stayed with Rick?

12 John Wayne and Wartime Hollywood

13 The Womans Film

14 Primary Sources

Sumner Welles to Franklin Roosevelt, 1941

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Presidential Library, Official File 4269, Fairbanks, Jr., Douglas, 1940-1944

THE 1941 ACADEMY AWARDS: HOLLYWOOD AND THE PRESIDENT

Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Museum, Official File 73: Motion Pictures

Correspondence between Walter Wanger and Stephen Early

Franklin D. Roosevelt to the Academy Awards Dinner

Walter Wanger to Stephen Early

Madeleine Carroll to Franklin Roosevelt

Hollywood, Calif., March 1, 1941

U.S. Senate Subcommittee Hearings on Motion Picture and Radio Propaganda, 1941

Excerpts from The Government Information Manual for the Motion Picture Industry

All-out Sacrifice - The Price of Total Victory.

Bureau of Motion Pictures Report: Casablanca

PART 4 Postwar Hollywood.

Introduction Double Indemnity and Film Noir

15 The Red Scare in Hollywood

The Black List

Movies and Communism: From Mission to Moscow to Big Jim McLain

16 Movies Grow Up

17 The Morality of Informing

18 Science Fiction as Social Commentary

19 Primary Sources

United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. (1947)

HEARINGS REGARDING THE COMMUNIST INFILTRATION OF THE MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY

U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Un-American Activities, 1947

U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Un-American Activities, 1951

The Waldorf Statement

PART 5 Hollywood in an Age of Turmoil

Introduction Bonnie and Clyde

20 The Dark Side of the 1960s

21 Films of the Late 1960s and Early 1970s

Alienation and Rebellion

The Hollywood Counterrevolution

22 Film Capital and National Capital

23 Reaffirming Traditional Values

24 Presenting African Americans on Film

25 Coming to Terms with the Vietnam War

26 Primary Sources

Raymond Caldiero to Herbert L. Porter, 1972

From Richard Nixon Presidential Library, Harry R. Haldeman Papers, folder Celebrities II, 2 of 2, box 2.

PART 6 Hollywood in the Post-Studio Era

Introduction A Changing Hollywood

27 Feminism and Recent American Film

Production and Publicity

Knowing Me Knowing You

Rape and Allegory

Women and the Law

The Female Outlaw Couple

Resistance and Address

Gender, Genre, and Closure

28 The Screen and the Cross

29 Social Revolution on Screen

Queers as Actual Human Beings

30 Encountering Distant Lands

31 Superheroes for the Twenty-First Century

32 Movies and the Construction of Historical Memory

Bibliography of Recent Books in American Film History

Reference Works

General Interpretations

Eras

Genres

Age, Class, Ethnicity, Gender, Religion, and Sexuality in Film.

American History in Film

Special Topics

Index

EULA.

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Other Format:

Print version: Mintz, Steven Hollywood's America

ISBN:

9781118976500

OCLC:

935256142