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American history/American film : interpreting the Hollywood image / edited by John E. O'Connor and Martin A. Jackson ; foreword by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr New York: Ungar, c1979.
Call No: 409(73) AMEAuthor: O'Connor, John E ; Jackson, Martin A Place: New YorkPublisher: UngarPubDate: c1979PhysDes: xxix, 290 p. : ill. ; 22 cmSubject: NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. USA ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. USA ; BLACK CINEMA. US ; WORKING CLASS IN FILMS. USA ; COMMUNISM AND THE CINEMA. USA ; HISTORICAL FILMS. USA ; WORLD WAR II FILMS. USA ; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. USA ; STEAMBOAT ROUND THE BEND (US, John Ford, 1935) ; SCAR OF SHAME, THE (US, Frank Peregini, 1927) ; PUBLIC ENEMY, THE (US, William Wellmen, 1931) ; WAY DOWN EAST (US, David Wark Griffith, 1920) ; BIG PARADE, THE (US, King Vidor, 1925) ; DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK (US, John Ford, 1939) ; MISSION TO MOSCOW (US, Michael Curtiz, 1943) ; BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES, THE (US, William Wyler, 1946) ; RED RIVER (US, Howard Hawks, 1948) ; VIVA ZAPATA (US, Elia Kazan, 1952) ; INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (US, Don Siegel, 1956) ; [DOCTOR] DR STRANGELOVE: OR, HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1964) ; BONNIE AND CLYDE (US, Arthur Penn, 1967) ; ROCKY (US, John G. Avildsen, 1976) Notes: Includes index; Bibliography p. 279-282ISBN: 0804422635 : $12.50; 0804466165(pbk. :) $3.95LON: 1282547
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American movie audiences: from the turn of the century to the early sound era / Melvyn Stokes and Richard Maltby London: British Film Institute, 1999.
Call No: 410(73) STOAuthor: Stokes, Melvyn ; Maltby, Richard Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: British Film InstitutePubDate: 1999PhysDes: 186 p. ; 23 cmSubject: SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA. USA ; AUDIENCES, US ; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA Summary: This book is an investigation by various authors into the early days of American cinema. Topics covered include: Jewish immigrant audiences in New York City 1905-14, Small town picture shows, representations of the audience in early cinema advertising, at the movies in Milwaukee in 1918.ISBN: 0851707211
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An Army of Phantoms : American movies and the making of the Cold War / by J.Hoberman New York: The New Press, c2011.
Call No: 71(73) HOBAuthor: Hoberman, J. Source: US/UKPlace: New YorkPublisher: The New PressPubDate: c2011PhysDes: xxi, 383 p. ; 24 cmSubject: CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA ; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. USA ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. USA ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1940's ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1950's ; USA ; FORT APACHE (US, John Ford, 1948) ; RIO GRANDE (US, John Ford, 1950) ; HIGH NOON (US, Fred Zinnemann, 1952) ; ABOVE AND BEYOND (US, Frank Melvin & Norman Panama, 1952) ; THEM! (US, Gordon Douglas, 1954) ; KISS ME DEADLY (US, Robert Aldrich, 1955) ; REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (US, Nicholas Ray, 1955) Summary: " An Army of Phantoms- a major new work of film history and cultural criticism from J. Hoberman, one of the foremost film critics writing today addresses the dynamic synergy of American politics and American popular culture during the Cold War's first decade.
Heralded by a mushroom cloud over Hiroshima, the years between 1946 and 1956 brought an explosion of affluence and anxiety. Along with U.S. dominance over Europe and a new war in Asia came the birth of the civil rights movement and the first stirrings of a new youth culture. The period saw the movie industry purged of its political left at the same time as the ideological action hero John Wayne reached the peak of his career.
Analyzing Hollywood's cavalry Westerns, apocalyptic sci-fi flicks, and biblical spectaculars, along with media events, congressional hearings and political campaigns, and drawing on FBI files and studio records, Hoberman has orchestrated a colorful, sometimes surreal pageant wherein Cecil B. DeMille rubs shoulders with Douglas MacArthur, atomic tests are shown on live TV, God talks on the radio, and Joe McCarthy is bracketed with Marilyn Monroe.
Essential reading for film and history buffs, An Army of Phantoms expands on the analysis of the 1960's found in Hoberman's critically acclaimed The Dream Life and offers a lively and astute history of film that is also, to paraphrase Jean-Luc Godard, about the film of history." --Book Jacket.Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-366) and indexISBN: 9781595580054Contents: Acknowledgments -- introduction: from God's mouth to your ear -- prologue: mission for Hollywood - Stalingrad to V-J Day -- Pt. 1. Aliens among us : Hollywood, 1946-47 -- pt. 2. Fighting for the ministry of truth, justice, and the American way, 1948-50 -- pt. 3. Redskin menace from outer space : America at war, 1950-52 -- pt. 4. The PaxAmericanArama : Eisenhower power, 1953-55 -- pt. 5. Searchin' : America on the road, 1955-56 -- epilogue: the face of the crowd -- sources -- index --
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Breaking in to the movies : film and the culture of politics / Henry A. Giroux Malden: Blackwell Publishers, 2002.
Call No: 409 GIRAuthor: Giroux, Henry A. Source: USPlace: MaldenPublisher: Blackwell PublishersPubDate: 2002PhysDes: 297 p. ; 24 cmSubject: CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA ; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA. USA ; GENDER AND THE CINEMA ; VIOLENCE IN FILMS. USA ; CHILDREN AND THE CINEMA ; WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS ; WERTMULLER, LINA ; CLARK, LARRY ; NORMA RAE (US, Martin Ritt, 1979) ; LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR (US, Richard Brooks, 1977) ; DEAD POETS SOCIETY (US, Peter Weir, 1989) ; DANGEROUS MINDS (US, John N. Smith, 1995) ; PULP FICTION (US, Quentin Tarantino, 1994) ; ONE EIGHT SEVEN (US, Kevin Reynolds, 1997) ; FIGHT CLUB (US, David Fincher, 1999) ISBN: 0631226044Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006
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Cinema and the wealth of nations : media, capital, and the liberal world system / Lee Grievson Oakland, California: University of California Press,
Call No: 203(73) GRIAuthor: Grievson, Lee Edition: 2018Place: Oakland, CaliforniaPublisher: University of California PressPhysDes: xvi, 466 pages : illustrated ; 24cmSubject: ECONOMICS AND THE CINEMA. US ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA ; CAPITALISM AND THE CINEMA ; FINANCING. USA ; INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTION. USA Summary: Cinema and the Wealth of Nations explores how media, principally in the form of cinema, was used during the interwar years by elite institutions to establish and sustain forms of liberal political economy beneficial to their interests. It examines the media produced by institutions such as states, corporations, and investment banks, as well as the emergence of a corporate media industry and system supported by state policy and integral to the establishment of a new consumer system. Lee Grieveson shows how media was used to encode liberal political and economic power during the period that saw the United States eclipse Britain as the globally hegemonic nation and the related inauguration of new forms of liberal economic globalization. But this is not a distant history. Cinema and the Wealth of Nations examines a foundational conjuncture in the establishment of media forms and a media system instrumental in, and structural to, the emergence and expansion of a world system that has been—and continues to be—brutally violent, unequal, and destructive. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9780520291690Contents: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- -- 1. The Silver Screen and the Gold Standard -- 2. The Panama Caper -- 3. Empire of Liberty -- 4. Liberty Bonds -- 5. The State of Extension -- 6. The Work of Film in the Age of Fordist Mechanization -- 7. The Pan-American Road to Happiness and Friendship -- 8. Highways of Empire -- 9. League of Corporations -- 10. The Silver Chains of Mimesis -- 11. The Golden Harvest of the Silver Screen -- 12. Welfare Media -- 13. The World of Tomorrow—Today! -- -- Notes -- Sources and Bibliography -- Index
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Cultural policy / Toby Miller and George Yudice London: Sage Publications, 2002.
Call No: 408 MILAuthor: Miller, Toby ; Yudice, George Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: Sage PublicationsPubDate: 2002PhysDes: 246 p. ; 25 cmSubject: CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA Summary: Aesthetically, culture operates globally as a signifier of differences and similarities in taste and status within social groups. Anthropologically, culture refers to how we live our lives, often between social groups or populations. Bridging these aesthetic and anthropological registers is cultural policy. Institutions enable and support creativity and collective ways of life by soliciting, training, distributing, financing, and rejecting actors and activities. By way of theory, history, and politics, Miller and Yudice seek to atriculate knowledge with progressive social change, with social movements as primary loci of power, authorization, and responsiblity. The result is an innovative, globally-encompassing work in the emerging field of cultural policy. It will be essential reading for students of cultural studies and cultural sociology. - BOOK JACKETNotes: Includes bibliography (p. [192]-235) and indexISBN: 0761952411Contents: Introduction: The History and Theory of Cultural Policy -- Ch. 1. The United States, Cultural Policy, and the National Endowment for the Arts -- Ch. 2. The Culture Industries - Citizenship, Consumption and Labor -- Ch. 3. Command Cultures and the Postcolonial -- Ch. 4. Museums -- Ch. 5. Transnational Cultural Policy
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Double takes : culture and gender in French films and their American remakes / Carolyn A. Durham Hanover, NH: Dartmouth University Press of New England, c1998.
Call No: 408.3(44) DURAuthor: Durham, Carolyn A Place: Hanover, NHPublisher: Dartmouth University Press of New EnglandPubDate: c1998PhysDes: xi, 246 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSeries: Contemporary French culture and societySubject: BIRDCAGE, THE (US, Mike Nichols, 1996) ; CAGE AUX FOLLES, LA (IT/FR, Edouard Molinaro, 1978) ; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS ; MARRIAGE IN FILMS ; REMAKES ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. FRANCE ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA ; GENDER AND THE CINEMA. USA ; GENDER AND THE CINEMA. FRANCE ; BREATHLESS (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1959) ; BREATHLESS (US, Jim McBride, 1983) ; A BOUT DE SOUFFLE (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1959) ; COUSINS (US, Joel Schumacher, 1989) ; COUSIN, COUSINE (FR, Jean-Charles Tacchella, 1975) ; MAN WHO LOVED WOMEN, THE (US, Blake Edwards, 1983) ; HOMME QUI AMAIT LES FEMMES, L' (FR, Francois Truffaut, 1977) ; I WANT TO GO HOME (FR, Alain Resnais, 1989) Notes: Filmography: p. 231-235; Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-229) and indexLON: 13921589
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The dream life : movies, media and the mythology of the sixties / by J. Hoberman New York: New Press, 2005.
Call No: 71"196"(73) HOBAuthor: Hoberman, J. Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: New PressPubDate: 2005PhysDes: 461 p. ; 20 cmSubject: USA ; USA. 1960's ; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA ; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA. USA ; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA ; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. USA ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1960's ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. USA ; SPARTACUS (US, Stanley Kubrick, 1960) ; ALAMO, THE (US, John Wayne, 1960) ; MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, THE (UK, John Sturges, 1960) ; MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, THE (US, John Frankenheimer, 1962) ; SEVEN DAYS IN MAY (US, John Frankenheimer, 1963) ; [DOCTOR] DR STRANGELOVE: OR, HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1964) ; CHASE, THE (US, Arthur Penn, 1966) ; EASY RIDER (US, Dennis Hopper, 1969) ; COOGAN'S BLUFF (US, Don Siegel, 1968) ; BONNIE AND CLYDE (US, Arthur Penn, 1967) ; MYRA BRECKENRIDGE (US, Mike Sarne, 1970) ; PATTON (US, Franklin J. Schaffner, 1970) ; DIRTY HARRY (US, Don Siegel, 1971) ; SHAMPOO (US, Hal Ashby, 1975) Summary: "Here is a major new cultural history of the Sixties. J. Hoberman delivers a brilliant and witty look at the decade when politics and pop culture became one. This was the era of the Missile Gap and the Space Race, the Black and Sexual Revolutions, the Vietnam War and Watergate - as well as the tele-saturation of the American market and the advent of Pop art. In "elegant, epigrammatic prose" (A.O Scott), Hoberman moves from the political histories of movies to the theater of wars, national political campaigns, and pop-culture events. With entertaining reinterpretations of key Hollywood movies such as Bonnie and Clyde, The Wild Bunch, and Shampoo, and meditations on personages ranging from John Wayne and Patty Hearst to Jane Fonda, Ronald Reagan, and Che Guevara. Hoberman reconstructs the hidden poltical history of 1960s cinema and the spectacular formation of America's mass-mediated politics" -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Originally published: 2003ISBN: 1565849787Contents: -- acknowledgments -- introduction: "suddenly...It's 1960!" -- I. Making pre-history, A.D. 1960 -- Enter the Hollywood Freedom fighter -- sputnik and the Spector of communist earth control -- when Superman came to the supermarket -- october 1960: Spartacus vs. The Alamo -- the year's best western: the new frontier and The Magnificent Seven -- II. Glamour and anxiety: The Kennedy scenario, 1961-63 -- camelot year one: into the twilight zone -- camelot year two: the president's double lives -- The Manchurian Candidate = the secret agent of history -- camelot down: thinking about the unthinkable -- coups d'etat:four days in November, Seven Days in May -- Dr. Strangelove's Prescription -- III. South by southwest: Lyndon Johnson's trip, 1964-66 -- jet-age bronco busters and twilight westerns -- the cowboy election of 1964 -- Major Dundee - great society abroad -- The Chase -- great society at home -- vietnam: "an oriental western" -- gathering the tribes: diggers, panthers, outlaws -- IV. Born to be wild: Outlaws of America, 1967-69 -- if you are a Bonnie-and-Clyder...: the birth of radical chic -- spring 1968": shooting Easy Rider, going Wild in the Streets -- creating our own reality: The Green Berets and the Battle of Chicago -- the election: calling Coogan's Bluff -- No future: the Children of Bonnie and Clyde -- V. Nixon time: The war at home, 1969-71 -- the end of the sixties -- America's Night of the Living Dead (My Lai, manson, Myra Breckinridge) -- spring 1970: Patton over Cambodia -- generational war in the dream life: hey Joe (where you goin' with that gun in your hand?) -- the last round-up: counterculture psychodrama and hippie westerns, 1971 -- the legal vigilante: Dirty Harry and Tricky Dick -- VI. After the orgy, from blowup to blow out -- flash forward to 1968: Shampoo -- the 1972 campaign: Warren, George, Jane, and The Candidate -- the Nixon Western -- Cine paranoia: conspiracies unmasked, 1973-75 -- freedomland 1981: Ronald Reagan and the Last Sixties Movie -- source notes -- index --
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Fosse / Sam Wasson, author of Fifth Avenue, 5am Boston ; New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.
Call No: 81FOS WASAuthor: Wasson, Sam Source: USPlace: Boston ; New YorkPublisher: Houghton Mifflin HarcourtPubDate: 2013PhysDes: 723 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmSubject: ACADEMY AWARDS ; BURLESQUE ; CHOREOGRAPHY ; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA ; DANCE IN FILMS ; DIRECTORS ; INDUSTRY, FILM. USA ; MUSICALS. USA ; UNITED ARTISTS ; FOSSE, BOB ; ASTAIRE, FRED ; CHAYEFSKY, PADDY ; DREYFUSS, RICHARD ; HEIM, ALAN ; MINNELLI, LIZA ; SONDHEIM, STEPHEN ; ALL THAT JAZZ (US, Bob Fosse, 1979) ; CABARET (US, Bob Fosse, 1972) ; LENNY (US, Bob Fosse, 1974) ; NOTTI DI CABIRIA, LE (IT, Federico Fellini, 1957) ; ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER (US, Vincente Minnelli, 1970) ; STAR 80 (US, Bob Fosse, 1983) ; SWEET CHARITY (US, Bob Fosse, 1969) Summary: "We see Bob Fosse's legacy everywhere--from Broadway to "Billy Jean" to Beyonce;'s moves in the "Single Ladies" video. Yet in spite of Fosse's deep cultural significance, no biography has ever brought him fully to life, unveiling the man behind the bowler hat and the swaggering sex appeal. Now, acclaimed cultural historian Sam Wasson traces Fosse's numberless reinventions of himself over a career that would spawn The Pajama Game, Cabaret, Pippin, Chicago, All That Jazz, and other iconic works of art and earn him Tonys, Emmys, and an Oscar. Wasson traces not only Fosse's prodigious professional life, but his intense relationships with everyone from Liza Minnelli, Fred Astaire, and Neil Simon to Shirley MacLaine, Jessica Lange, and Dustin Hoffman. Through extensive interviews with collaborators and lovers and unprecedented access to Fosse's archives, Wasson also reveals the deep wounds that propelled his subject's excessive appetites--for spotlights, women, and life itself. In Fosse, Wasson's stylish, effervescent prose proves the ideal vehicle for reanimating Bob Fosse as he truly was--after hours, close up, and in vibrant color" -- FROM TROVENotes: Contains photos and indexISBN: 9780547553290
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Hauntings : popular film and American culture, 1990-1992 / Joseph Natoli Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994.
Call No: 409(73) NATAuthor: Natoli, Joseph, 1943 Place: AlbanyPublisher: State University of New York PressPubDate: 1994PhysDes: xi, 238 p. ; 24 cmSeries: SUNY series in postmodern cultureSubject: SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA. USA ; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA ; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA ; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA. USA ; NATIVE AMERICANS IN FILMS ; ROBIN HOOD IN FILMS ; KING, RODNEY ; PHOENIX, RIVER ; STONE, OLIVER ; CAPE FEAR (US, J. Lee Thompson, 1961) ; CAPE FEAR (US, Martin Scorsese, 1991) ; BASIC INSTINCT (US, Paul Verhoeven, 1992) ; PRINCE OF TIDES, THE (US, Barbra Streisand, 1991) ; HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE, THE (US, Curtis Hanson, 1991) ; OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY (US, Norman Jewison, 1991) ; ROBIN HOOD : PRINCE OF THIEVES (US, Kevin Reynolds, 1991) ; GRAND CANYON (US, Lawrence Kasdan, 1991) ; GODFATHER [...], THE (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1972-) ; BIS ANS ENDE DER WELT (GG/FR/AT, Wim Wenders, 1991) ; SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, THE (US, Jonathan Demme, 1991) ; MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO (US, Gus Van Sant, 1991) ; WALL STREET (US, Oliver Stone, 1987) ; UNFORGIVEN (US, Clint Eastwood, 1992) ; DO THE RIGHT THING (US, Spike Lee, 1989) ; BOB ROBERTS (US, Tim Robbins, 1992) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-238)ISBN: 0791421546 (pbk. : acid-free paper); 0791421538 (acid-free paper)LON: 10867366
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Hollywood as historian : American film in a cultural context / edited by Peter C. Rollins Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 1983.
Call No: 49:930.2 HOLAuthor: Rollins, Peter C. Source: USPlace: Lexington, Ky.Publisher: University Press of KentuckyPubDate: 1983PhysDes: x, 276 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject: HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. USA ; FOX STUDIOS ; BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915) ; CITY LIGHTS (US, Charles Chaplin, 1931) ; MODERN TIMES (US, Charles Chaplin, 1936) ; GREAT DICTATOR, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1940) ; GRAPES OF WRATH, THE (US, John Ford, 1940) ; WILSON (US, Henry King, 1944) ; NEGRO SOLDIER, THE (US, Frank Capra, 1944) ; SNAKE PIT (US, Anatole Litvak, 1948) ; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA ; ON THE WATERFRONT (US, Elia Kazan, 1954) ; WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (US, Mike Nichols, 1966) ; APOCALYPSE NOW (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1979) ; ADAPTATiONS. CONRAD, JOSEPH ; CHAPLIN, CHARLES ; VIETNAM WAR IN FILMS ; [DOCTOR] DR STRANGELOVE: OR, HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1964) ; NATIVE LAND (US, Leo Hurwitz & Paul Strand, 1942) ; CENSORSHIP. USA ; RIVER, THE (US, Lorentz Pare, 1937) Notes: Includes bibliographical references.ISBN: 0813101549 (pbk.)
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Hollywood goes to war : how politics, profits and propaganda shaped World War II movies / Clayton R. Koppes and Gregory D. Black London: I.B. Tauris, 1987.
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Hollywood vs. America : popular culture and the war on traditional values / Michael Medved New York, NY [Grand Rapids, Mich.]: HarperCollins Zondervan, 1992.
Call No: 409.1(73) MEDAuthor: Medved, Michael Edition: 1st edSource: USPlace: New York, NY [Grand Rapids, Mich.]Publisher: HarperCollins ZondervanPubDate: 1992PhysDes: xiii, 386 p. ; 25 cmSubject: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA ; CENSORSHIP. USA ; JEWS AND THE CINEMA. USA ; FAMILY IN FILMS. USA ; MARRIAGE IN FILMS. USA ; RELIGION AND THE CINEMA. USA ; VIOLENCE IN FILMS. USA ; COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE & HER LOVER, THE (NE/FR, Peter Greenaway, 1989) ; LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST, THE (US/CN, Martin Scorsese, 1988) Summary: "Why does popular culture seem so consistently hostile to the values most Americans hold dear? Why does the entertainment industry attack religion, glorify brutality, undermine the family, and deride patriotism? In this explosive book, one of the nation's best known film critics examines how Hollywood has broken faith with its public, creating movies, television, and popular music that exacerbates every serious social problem we face, from teenage pregnancies to violence in the streets." [Taken from book jacket]Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-370) and indexISBN: 006016882XLON: 92052604; 9162681
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Maximum movies - pulp fictions : film culture and the worlds of Samuel Fuller, Mickey Spillane, and Jim Thompson / Peter Stanfield New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2011.
Call No: 408 STAAuthor: Stanfield, Peter Source: USPlace: New Brunswick, N.J.Publisher: Rutgers University PressPubDate: 2011PhysDes: xiii, 227 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: ADAPTATIONS. THOMPSON, JIM ; ADAPTATIONS. SPILLANE, MICKEY ; FULLER, SAMUEL ; EXPLOITATION FILMS ; CULT FILMS ; BEST FILMS ; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA ; THEORY ; AESTHETICS ; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA ; FILM CULTURE ; GODARD, JEAN-LUC ; FARBER, MANNY ; KISS ME DEADLY (US, Robert Aldrich, 1955) Summary: A study on pulp movies (such as Kiss me Deadly, Shock Corridor, Fixed Bayonets!, I Walked with a Zombie, The Lineup, Terror in a Texas Town, Ride Lonesome) impacted upon and influenced the critics, cinephiles, and filmmakers of the day (people such as Jean-Luc Godard, Manny Farber, Lawerence Alloway, Paulene Kael). The critics 'championed the cause of these movies and incited the cultural guardians of the day by attacking a rigorously policed canon of tasteful, rareified, and ossified art objects.
Against the legitimate and in the defense of the illegitimate, in an insolent and unruly manner, these critics agitated for the recognition of lurid sensational crime stories. War pictures, fast-paced Westerns, thillers, and gangster melodramas were claimed as examples of the true, the real, and the authentic in contemporary culture - the foundation upon which modern film studies sits.' - taken from Back CoverISBN: 9780813550626Contents: Introduction : yours till the boys come home -- Position papers : in defense of pulp movies -- A genealogy of pulp : Black mask to Mickey Spillane -- A world of small insanities : the critical reception of Kiss me deadly -- American primitive : Samuel Fuller's pulp politics -- Authenticating pulp : Jim Thompson adaptations and neo-noir -- Conclusion : hiding out in cinemas
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Movies and mass culture / edited and with an introduction by John Belton New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996.
Call No: 408.1(73) MOVAuthor: Belton, John Place: New Brunswick, NJPublisher: Rutgers University PressPubDate: 1996PhysDes: viii, 279 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSeries: Rutgers depth of field seriesSubject: NATIONAL IDENTITY IN FILMS. USA ; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA ; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA ; FILM NOIR. USA ; FAMILY IN FILMS. USA ; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA. USA ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. USA ; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA. USA ; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA. USA ; CONSUMERISM IN FILMS. USA ; FASHION AND THE CINEMA. USA ; NOSTALGIA IN FILMS. USA ; POPULISM AND THE CINEMA. USA ; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK ; BERKELEY, BUSBY ; Lombard, Carole ; DAMES (US, Ray Enright, 1934) ; E.T. THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL (US, Steven Spielberg, 1982) ; BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915) ; BLADE RUNNER (US, Ridley Scott, 1982) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-269) and indexISBN: 0813522277 (cloth : alk. paper); 0813522285 (pbk.)LON: 11604013
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Ticket to paradise : American movie theaters and how we had fun / John Margolies and Emily Gwathmey ; prologue by Harold Ramis Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1991.
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The wow climax : tracing the emotional impact of popular culture / Henry Jenkins New York, N.Y: New York University Press, 2007.
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