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  • - The Talkshow in Media Culture
    af Wayne Munson
    329,95 - 651,95 kr.

    Examines the talkshow as a cultural form whose curious productivity has become vital to America's image economy. This book looks at the talkshow's history, programs, production methods, and the "talk" about it that pervades media culture - the press, broadcasting, and Hollywood.

  • - African American Urban Experiences In Film
    af Paula Massood
    254,95 kr.

    A title that shows how popular films reflected the massive social changes that resulted from the Great Migration of African Americans from the rural South to cities in the North, West, and Mid-West during the first three decades of the twentieth century. It offers a unique map of Black representations in film.

  • af Roy Grundmann
    297,95 - 788,95 kr.

    Draws on discourses of art history, film theory, queer studies, and cultural studies to situate Warhol's work at the nexus of Pop art, portrait painting, avant-garde film, and mainstream cinema. This book presents Warhol art and Ed Wallowitch photographs along with publicity shots of James Dean.

  • - Stardom & Womanhood In Nazi Cinema
    af Antje Ascheid
    275,95 kr.

    Features the brightest stars in fascist films.

  • - The African American Image in Film
    af Ed Guerrero
    318,95 kr.

    Arguing that the commercial film industry reflects white domination of American society, this book traces an African Americans protesting screen images of blacks as criminals, servants, comics, athletes, and sidekicks. It also looks at the controversies surrounding role choices by stars like Sidney Poitier, Eddie Murphy, and Whoopie Goldberg.

  • - A Sight and Sound Reader
    af Pam Cook
    265,95 kr.

  • - Authorship and the Studio System
    af Robert Sklar
    307,95 kr.

    Frank Capra's films have had a lasting impact on American culture. His depiction of American values, myths, and ideals was central to Hollywood films as "It Happened One Night", "Mr Smith Goes to Washington", and "It's a Wonderful Life". This collection of nine essays analyzes Capra's filmmaking during his most prolific period, from 1928 to 1939.

  • af Eva Rueschmann
    318,95 - 926,95 kr.

    Explores the sister bond in a wide range of modernist feature films that depart from the conventional cinematic rendering of women's lives. This book emphasizes the role of a woman's relationship and inner world in her continual quest for self-knowledge and draws upon the works of filmmakers from the 1970s to the 1990s.

  • - Film At Fin De Siecle
    af J. Hoberman
    372,95 kr.

    Anthologizes the author's movie reviews, cultural criticism, and political essays, published in "The Village Voice", "Artforum", and elsewhere during the period bracketed by the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the World Trade Towers.

  • - Studies in the Historical Fiction Film
    af Leger Grindon
    297,95 kr.

    Examines how historical fiction films interpret the present through a representation of the past. Utilizing the past as a way of responding to social conflicts in the present, this work shows how the genre promotes a political agenda, superseding the influence of scholarship on the public's perception and interpretation of history.

  • af Giulana Muscio
    320,95 - 938,95 kr.

    Weaving together film and political history, this work traces the connections between Depression Era Hollywood and the popularity of F D Roosevelt, asserting that politics transformed its public into spectators while the movie industry transformed its spectators into a public.

  • - Movies and the Culture Wars
    af Charles Lyons
    286,95 kr.

    Contains a study of the complex ways movies have been shaped in the years since the demise of the Hays Production Code and covers a wide range of movies, protests, and government actions. This book provides a contemporary history of controversial movies and a timely discussion of how cultural politics continues to affect the movie industry.

  • af J. Hoberman
    297,95 - 794,95 kr.

    Argues that Communism produced a complex culture with a dialectical relation to both modernism and itself. Offering examples ranging from the Stalinist show trial to Franz Kafka's posthumous career as a dissident writer, this book says that Communism was an aesthetic project.

  • - The Western And U S History
    af Stanley Corkin
    297,95 - 768,95 kr.

    Examines many of the significant westerns released between 1946 and 1962, analyzing how they responded to and influenced the cultural climate of the country. This work discusses a dozen films in detail, connecting them to each other and to numerous others. It considers how these cultural productions embellished the myth of the American frontier.

  • - Film & Politics In Age Of New Deal
    af Saverio Giovacchini
    297,95 - 788,95 kr.

    Offers an account of how a generation of industry newcomers attempted to use the modernist art of the cinema to educate the public in anti-Fascist ideals. This book traces the transformation that took place in the film industry from the 1930s to the 1950s.

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