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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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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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The birth of the movies / D.J. Wenden London: MacDonald & Janes, 1975.
Call No: 70"0192" WENAuthor: Wenden, D.J. Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: MacDonald & JanesPubDate: 1975PhysDes: 192 p. : ill., facsims., ports. ; 24 cmSubject: HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. USA ; HISTORY OF CINEMA ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1920's Summary: "The birth of the movies is a fresh and unusual exploration into the early days of world cinema by a professional historian. It opens up a whole new range of insights by considering the silent film in its general social context rather than as an isolated art form in its own right. The book sets out the stages by which the cinema developed from its origins as a music hall novelty at the turn of the century into an individual means of entertainment and thence- at the end of the 1920s- into big business. This transition was reflected in the replacement of converted back rooms by cheap nickelodeans and then by giant picture palaces, when customers were called patrons and full symphony orchestras played in the pit. The California movie rush of the 1920s is compared to the gold rush of 1849; the dominant Hollywood star system and values are discussed from a social and economic viewpoint - trade is shown to follow the movie; early attempts at censorship are described, and the crude propoganda of the patriotic war films of the Firts World War is set alongside the more sophisticated political methods of Eisenstein (who believed that the film was 'as terrible a weapon as the hand grenade') and of the agit-trains that rolled across post-rolled Russia. Nor are the personalities (Mary Pickford, Chaplin, Keaton, D.W Griffith, etc.) or the aesthetics of the early cinema ignored. The book ends with the coming of the talkies, which were to revolutionize the film industry. Chaplin feared that talking would destroy the illusion of cinema; certainly it put an end to the eolquent silence of a very special and well-developed art." -- BOOK JACKETNotes: Includes index.; Bibliography: p. [186]-188.ISBN: 0356045722Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006Contents: -- preface -- 1: the primitive days of cinema -- 2: movies develop style -- 3: movies became an artform -- 4: movies become big business -- 5: movies and society -- 6: movies and politics -- 7: movies become hollywood -- 8: pictures move and talk -- references -- further reading -- index --
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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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Film Europe and film America : Cinema, commerce and cultural exchange 1920-1939 / Andrew Higson and Richard Maltby (ed) Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1999.
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HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. USA
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Hollywood : politics and society / Mark Wheeler London: British Film Institute, 2006.
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Hollywood : legend and reality / edited by Michael Webb Boston: Little, Brown, 1986.
Call No: 700 HOLAuthor: Webb, Michael Edition: 1st ed.Source: USPlace: BostonPublisher: Little, BrownPubDate: 1986PhysDes: xi, 227 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 x 28 cmSubject: HISTORY AND THE CINEMA ; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. USA Notes: "A New York Graphic Society book."; Includes bibliographies and index.ISBN: 0821215884Contents: Preface by Ralph P. Davidson -- Foreword by Robert McC. Adams -- Introduction:
-- 1-- Spellbound in darkness -- 2 -- Sending a message -- 3 -- Production -- 4 -- Screenwriting -- 5 -- Directing the picture -- 6 -- Production design -- 7 -- Costume design -- 8 -- Cinematography -- 9 -- Editing -- 10 -- Scoring -- 11 -- Special effects -- 12 -- Star power -- Epilogue: by Carl H. Scheele -- Acknowledgements: by Peggy A. Loar -- Picture sources - Exhibition checklist -- Index
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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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The Hollywood history of the world / George MacDonald Fraser ; film stills from the Kobal Collection London: Penguin, 1988.
Call No: 741.9 FRAAuthor: Fraser, George MacDonald Source: USPlace: LondonPublisher: PenguinPubDate: 1988PhysDes: xix, 268 p. : ill. ; 25 cmSubject: HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. USA ; RELIGIOUS FILMS ; CITIES IN FILMS ; WESTERNS Summary: The book looks at the history of mankind, divided into seven stages ranging from the Creation to the Vietnam war, and attempts to compare historical fact with the way history is presented by Hollywood, and shows where Hollywood got it right and where it got it wrong.Notes: Includes indexISBN: 0718129970Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006Contents: Introduction -- First age: the ancient world -- Second age: knights and barbarians -- Third age: Tudors and sea-dogs -- Fourth age: romance and royalty -- Fifth age: rule Britannia -- Sixth age: new world, old west -- Seventh age: the violent century -- References -- Index
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Memo from Darryl F. Zanuck : the golden years at Twentieth Century Fox / selected and edited by Rudy Behlmer New York: Grove Press, c1993.
Call No: 81ZAN MEMAuthor: Behlmer, Rudy (ed.) Edition: First edition 1993Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: Grove PressPubDate: c1993PhysDes: xxiii, 276 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject: TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. USA ; INDUSTRY, FILM. USA ; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA ; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. USA ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1930's ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1940's ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1950's ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1960's ; ZANUCK, DARRYL F. Summary: '...A treasure trove of legend and lore, insights and nostalgia, Memo from Darryl F. Zanuck is as entertaining as it is informative, and full of secrets and surprises. Illustrated with photographs as intimate and candid as the correspondance itself, it offers a chronicle of Hollywood's most glamorous age and rich testimony to the taste, showmanship, and vision of of its most resilient, efficient and enduring producer." -- BOOK JACKETNotes: "A selection of Darryl F. Zanuck's letters and memoranda during the glory days of 20th Century-Fox (1935-1956)"--Introd; Includes indexISBN: 0802115403Contents: -- foreword by Philip Dunne -- preface -- one: twentieth century-fox: off and running -- two: twentieth century-fox: a major force -- three: world war II: business is fine, thank you --four: semidocumentaries, films noir, literary works, and sleepers -- five: the going gets tough -- six: the going gets tougher -- seven: cinemascope and stereophonic sound to the rescue -- afterword -- about Darryl F. Zanuck -- index --
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Movie-made America : a cultural history of American movies / Robert Sklar London: Chappell & Company, [197?].
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The movie moguls : an informal history of Hollywood tycoons / Philip French Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1971.
Call No: 802.091.11 FREAuthor: French, Philip Source: UKPlace: Harmondsworth, MiddlesexPublisher: PenguinPubDate: 1971PhysDes: 208 p., [16] p. of plates ; 18 cmSubject: HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. USA ; INDUSTRY, FILM ; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; MOTION PICTURE PRODUCERS AND DISTRIBUTORS OF AMERICA ; STUDIO SYSTEM ; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS ; TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX ; UNIVERSAL PICTURES ; UNITED ARTISTS ; WARNER BROS. ; COHN, HARRY ; DEMILLE, CECIL B. ; DISNEY, WALT ; KATZ, SAM ; KENNEDY JOSEPH P. ; LAEMMLE, CARL ; LASKY, JESSE ; SCHARY, DORE ; SCHULBERG, BUDD ; SCHENCK, JOSEPH M ; SELZNICK, DAVID O. ; SHEARER, NORMA ; SKOURAS, SPYROS ; SINCLAIR, UPTON ; THALBERG, IRVING ; WANGER, WALTER ; STROHEIN, ERICH VON ; ZANUCK, DARRYL F. ; ZANUCK, RICHARD ; ZUKOR, ADOLPH Notes: includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 297762664Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006
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The movies begin : making movies in New Jersey 1887-1920 / Paul C. Spehr Newark, New Jersey: Newark Museum, 1977.
Call No: 70"00:01" SPEAuthor: Spehr, P.C. Source: USPlace: Newark, New JerseyPublisher: Newark MuseumPubDate: 1977PhysDes: 191 p. : illustrations ; 26 cmSubject: HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. USA ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. USA ; HISTORY OF EXHIBITION ; EDISON, THOMAS ALVA ; DICKSON, W. K. L. ; DICKSON EXPERIMENTAL SOUND FILM (US, W.K.L. Dickson, 1894) Summary: "Stills, production photographs, and rare portraits are featured in a study of Edison's development of movie equipment and the stars, studios, and events that marked the growth of the movie industry in New Jersey" -- From Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/moviesbeginmakin0000spehNotes: Includes bibliography; Includes indexISBN: 0871001217Contents: Introduction: Samual C. Miller -- Acknowledgement: Paul C. Spehr -- Pre-Cinema: The Times and the man, Making pictures move, Photography and motion -- Invention and early development: Thomas A. Edison and William K. Dickson, THomas A. Edison: the first films, Edison and Dickson: what did they contribute to movies?, Film theatres and early filmmaking -- Early filmmaking in New Jersey: On location in New Jersey, The Motion Picture Patents Co. and The Independents -- The Studios -- The Personalities
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The Oxford handbook of the American musical / Edited by Raymond Knapp, Mitchell Morris, Stacy Wolf Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2011, 2013.
Call No: 751.1(73) OXFAuthor: Knapp, Raymond ; Morris, Mitchell ; Wolf, Stacy Edition: paperbackSource: US/UKPlace: Oxford ; New YorkPublisher: Oxford University PressPubDate: 2011, 2013PhysDes: x, 470 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmSubject: AUDIENCES ; AUTHORSHIP ; BLACK CINEMA. US ; BOX OFFICE. USA ; COMEDIES ; DANCE IN FILMS ; GENDER AND THE CINEMA ; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. USA ; HISTORY OF CINEMA ; IDENTITY IN FILMS ; IDEOLOGY IN FILMS ; MEDIA AND THE CINEMA ; MUSIC IN FILMS ; MUSIC AND THE CINEMA ; MUSICALS. USA ; RACIAL ISSUES AND THE CINEMA ; THEATRE AND THE CINEMA ; ANDREWS, JULIE ; ASTAIRE, FRED ; BERLIN, IRVING ; FOSSE, BOB ; HAMMERSTEIN, OSCAR, II ; KERN, JEROME ; MERMAN, ETHEL ; ROBBINS, JEROME ; SONDHEIM, STEPHEN ; BLACK CROOK, THE (US, Robert G. Vignola, 1916) ; CABARET (US, Bob Fosse, 1972) ; CHICAGO (US, Rob Marshall, 2002) ; CHORUS LINE (US, Richard Attenborough, 1985) ; FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (US, Norman Jewison, 1971) ; GUYS AND DOLLS (US, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1955) ; GYPSY (US, Emile Ardolino, 1994) ; MY FAIR LADY (US, George Cukor, 1964) ; OKLAHOMA! (US, Fred Zinneman, 1955) ; PRODUCERS, THE (US, Mel Brooks, 1967) ; SHOWBOAT (US, George Sidney, 1951) ; SOUND OF MUSIC, THE (US, Robert Wise, 1965) ; WEST SIDE STORY (US, Robert Wise, 1961) Summary: "The Oxford Handbook of The American Musical offers new and cutting-edge essays on the most important and compelling issues and topics in the growing, interdisciplinary field of musical-theater and film-musical studies. Taking the form of a "keywords" book, it introduces readers to the concepts and terms that define the history of the musical as a genre and that offer ways to reflect on the specific creative choices that shape musicals and their performance on stage and screen. The handbook offers a cross-section of essays written by leading experts in the field, organized within broad conceptual groups, which together capture the breadth, direction, and tone of musicals studies today." - GOOGLE BOOKSNotes: Includes bibliographic references and indexISBN: 9780199987368Contents: Part I: Historiography. Narratives and values / Mitchell Morris -- Texts and authors / Jim Lovensheimer -- Musical styles and song conventions / Paul R. Laird -- Evolution of dance in the golden age of the American "book musical" / Liza Gennaro; Part II: Transformations. Minstrelsy and theatrical miscegenation / Thomas L. Riis -- Tin Pan Alley songs on stage and screen before World War II / Raymond Knapp and Mitchell Morris -- Integration / Geoffrey Block -- After the "golden age" / Jessica Sternfeld and Elizabeth L. Wollman; Part III: Media. Theater / Tamsen Wolff -- The filmed musical / Raymond Knapp and Mitchell Morris -- The television musical / Robynn J. Stilwell -- The animated film musical / Susan Smith -- The evolution of the original cast album / George Reddick; Part IV: Identities. Race, ethnicity, performance / Todd Decker -- Gender and sexuality / Stacy Wolf -- The politics of region and nation in American musicals / Chase A. Bringardner -- Class and culture / David Savran; Part V: Performance. The institutional structure of the American musical theater / David Sanjek -- Orchestration and arrangement : creating the Broadway sound / Dominic Symonds -- Musical theater directors / Barbara Wallace Grossman -- Sets, costumes, lights, and spectacle / Virginia Anderson -- Acting / John M. Clum -- Singing / Mitchell Morris and Raymond Knapp -- Dance and choreography / Zachary A. Dorsey; Part VI: Audiences. Box office / Steven Adler -- Audiences and critics / Michelle Dvoskin -- Stars and fans / Holley Replogle-Wong -- Knowing your audience / Jennifer Chapman -- Performance, authenticity, and the reflexive idealism of the American musical / Raymond Knapp
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Power and paranoia : history, narrative and the American cinema, 1940-1950 / Dana Polan New York: Columbia University Press, 1986.
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Scenes from a revolution : the birth of the new Hollywood / Mark Harris Edinburgh: Canongate, 2008.
Call No: 71 (73) HARAuthor: Harris Mark Place: EdinburghPublisher: CanongatePubDate: 2008PhysDes: 490 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cmSubject: COLUMBIA PICTURES ; CRITICISM ; CRITICS ; DIRECTORS. USA ; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. USA ; HOLLYWOOD IN FILMS ; JAMES BOND IN FILMS ; TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX ; WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS ; ALLEN, WOODY ; ANTONIONI, MICHELANGELO ; ASHBY, HAL ; BANCROFT, ANNE ; BEATTY, WARREN ; BENTON, ROBERT ; BERGMAN, INGRID ; BLAKE, ROBERT ; BRANDO, MARLON ; BURTON, RICHARD ; CAINE, MICHAEL ; CARON, LESLIE ; CUKOR, GEORGE ; COLLINS, JOAN ; CONNERY, SEAN ; COPPOLA, FRANCIS FORD ; CORMAN, ROGER ; DANIELS, WILLIAM ; DAVIS, SAMMY, Jr. ; DAY, DORIS ; DUNAWAY, FAYE ; DUVALL, ROBERT ; FELLINI, FEDERICO ; FLEISCHER, RICHARD ; FONDA, JANE ; FRANKOVICH, MIKE ; GODARD, JEAN-LUC ; HARRISON, REX ; HENRY, BUCK ; HEPBURN, KATHARINE ; HOFFMAN, DUSTIN ; NEWMAN, DAVID ; BONNIE AND CLYDE (US, Arthur Penn, 1967) ; CAMELOT (US, Joshua Logan, 1967) ; CLEOPATRA (US, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1963) ; COOL HAND LUKE (US, Stuart Rosenberg, 1967) ; [DOCTOR] DR DOLITTLE (US, Richard Fleischer, 1967) ; GRADUATE, THE (US, Mike Nichols, 1967) ; GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER (US, Stanley Kramer, 1967) ; KAEL, PAULINE ; IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (US, Norman Jewison, 1967) Summary: In this book, Mark Harris looks at 1967, and marks it as a pivotal moment in Hollywood's history: the shift from studio -generated epics, westerns and musicals, such as "Doctor Doolitle"to the director-centred European aesthetic seen in "Bonnie & Clyde" and "The Graduate". It was the birth of the New Hollywood. The book look at five films made in this year- "Bonnie & Clyde", "In the heat of the night", "Doctor Doolittle" "The Graduate" and "Guess who's coming to dinner" from the. first draft of the scripts to the impact of their release. The author interviews most of the actors in volved in the making of these films and presents a book about Hollywood and the United States at a critical juncture in their history. [Taken from the cover]Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [432]-438) and index.ISBN: 9781847671028ID2: 277
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The southern movie palace: rise, fall and resurrection Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2003.
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War on film : the American cinema and World War 1, 1914-1941 / Michael T. Isenberg Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1981.
Call No: 737 ISEAuthor: Isenberg, Michael T. Source: USPlace: RutherfordPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University PressPubDate: 1981PhysDes: 273 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.Subject: \WORLD WAR I AND THE CINEMA ; WORLD WAR I FILMS ; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA ; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. USA ; WAR IN FILMS ISBN: 0838620043Contents: -- preface -- acknowledgments -- introduction -- Part 1 Charting Terra Incognita: Remarks on Film and History -- 1: Film: the unused evidence -- 2: Historians, aesthetics, and film -- 3: toward a historical methodology for film scholarship -- part 2 realism and the war film -- 4: the myth of the 'objective camera': a critique of film reality -- 5: from idealism to nihilism: the plastic uses of the realistic film -- part 3 the camera eye: focus on war -- 6: the mirror of democracy -- 7: the trumpet calls: commitment and sacrifice -- 8: what price adventure? --9: films against war -- part 4 the camera eye: images in a mirror -- 10: the threat: the image of the enemy -- 11: the friend: the image of the ally -- 12: we ourselves: the image of the home front -- part 5: the camera eye: variations on a theme -- 13: war and women -- 14: war and horror -- conclusions -- notes -- bibliography of primary sources -- index --
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