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Old collection book		The American new wave : 1958-1967 [Minneapolis]; [Buffalo, NY]: Walker Art Centre; Media Study/Buffalo, 1982. Call No: 71(73) AME Source: US Place: [Minneapolis]; [Buffalo, NY] Publisher: Walker Art Centre; Media Study/Buffalo PubDate: 1982 PhysDes: 79 p. ; ill. : 28 cm Subject: USA. 1950's; USA. 1960's Notes: Catalogue of the traveling exhibition, Jan. 1983-1984 Contents: -- Introduction, Melida Ward, Bruce Jenkins -- From the diaries, Jonas Mekas -- Acting: 1958-1965, Taylor Mead -- Shirley Clarke: An interview, Melinda Ward -- The Savage Eye Shadows, Jonathan Rosenbaum -- Pull my Daisy - The Queen of Sheba meets the Atom Man, J Hoberman -- Nothing But a Man - The Cool World, Noel Carrol -- Babo 73 - Hold me while I'm naked - Hallelujah the hills, Richard Peterson -- Come back, Africa - The Brig, James Roy MacBean -- David Holzman's Diary - Portrait of Jason, Wanda Bershen -- Chronology -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Film credits More info
book		The Columbia companion to American history on film : how the movies have portrayed the American past / edited by Peter C. Rollins New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. Call No: 741.9(73) COL Author: Rollins, Peter C. Edition: 1st ed. Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Columbia University Press PubDate: 2003 PhysDes: xxi, 671 p. : ill. ; 26 cm Subject: USA; USA. 1895-1930; USA. 1920's; USA. 1927-32; USA. 1930's; USA. 1940's; USA. 1950's; USA. 1960's; USA. 1970's; NIXON [RICHARD M.] IN FILMS Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 023111222X Donation: Donated by Senses Of Cinema, 2009 Contents: I. Eras-- The Puritan Era and the Puritan Mind-- The 1890s -- The 1920s --The 1930s -- The 1960s -- The 1970s -- The 1980s -- II. Wars and Other Malor Events --The American Revolution -- The Civil War and Reconstruction -- The Cold War-- The Korean War -- The Mexican-American War and the Spanish-American War --The Vietnam War -- Westward Expansion and the Indian Wars -- World War I -- World War-- II: Documentaries -- World War II: Feature Films -- III. Notable People -- The Antebellum Frontier Hero --Christopher Columbus-- The Founding Fathers -- Indian Leaders -- The Kennedys -- Abraham Lincoln --Richard Nixon -- Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt -- Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig -- Harry S. Truman -- George Washington -- IV. Groups -- African Americans After World War II-- Arab Americans-- Asian Americans-- Catholic Americans -- Children and Teenagers in the Twentieth Century -- Irish Americans -- Italian Americans--Jewish Americans -- Mexican Americans --Native Americans -- Radicals and Radicalism-- Robber Barons, Media Moguls, and Power Elites -- Women from the Colonial Era to 1900 -- Women in the Twentieth Century-- V. Institutions and Movements -- Baseball -- City and State Government -- Civil Rights-- Congress -- The Family -- Football -- Journalism and the Media -- The Labor Movement and the Working Class--Militias and Extremist Political Movements --The Political Machine -- The Presidency After World War II -- Private Schools -- Public High Schools -- VI. Places -- The Midwest -- The "New" West and the New Western -- New York City--The Sea -- The Small Town -- The South -- Space -- Suburbia -- Texas and the Southwest -- The Trans-Appalachian West -- VII. Themes and Topics -- Crime and the Mafia -- Drugs, Tobacco, and Alcohol -- Elections and Party Politics -- Feminism and Feminist Films-- Railroads --Sexuality -- Slavery -- VIII. Myths and Heroes -- The American Adam-- The American Fighting Man -- Democracy and Equality -- The Frontier and the West -- Hollywood's Detective-- The Machine in the Garden -- Success and the Self-Made Man. More info
book		Death in classical Hollywood cinema / Boaz Hagin New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Call No: 747.19 HAG Source: US Place: New York, NY Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan PubDate: 2010 PhysDes: ix, 201 p. ; 22 cm Subject: DEATH IN FILMS; USA. 1920's; USA. 1930's; USA. 1940's; USA. 1950's Summary: 'This highly original study is a rigorous, provocative and entertaining account of the different meanings associated with death in classical Hollywood cinema. Analyzing an impressive range of films with flair and theoretical sophistication, it shows how death becomes meaningful in art. This is an important work on Hollywood film which also helps us to understand how we incorporate the death of others into the narrative of our lives.'-Colin Davis, Professor of French, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK -- Characterized by a causal, linear, individual-driven narrative, and also by a flair for excessive melodramatic spectacles, Hollywood's classical films from the 1920's through the 1950's pose unique challenges and constraints for making death meaningful. Death in Classical Hollywood Cinema shows how philosophies of death can be gleaned by looking at the role death plays within the classical Hollywood narrative and in later mainstream films which cope with death in light of virtual reality, cloning, and genetic engineering. Addressing major continental thinkers like Freud, Benjamin, and Deleuze, and focusing on the melodrama, gangster film, Western, and war film, this book analyzes and challenges the ways Hollywood can offer to cope with death and to make sense of our inevitable and universal mortality. --Book Jacket. ISBN: 9780230236226 Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2013 Contents: -- acknowledgments -- The meaning of death in classical Hollywood. Practicing film theory -- Death on the line -- A politics of death -- Two Platos : death, truth, and knowledge. A rehearsal for death -- Access, authority, and tests -- The superfluity of a truth-revealing death -- The misery of truth -- Embodying the past. The killability test -- A logic of singular evil -- Melodrama and the shaping of desires to come. Sublating death -- Obstacles and goals -- Desiring death -- Impossible legacies -- Cults of the dead and powers of the false. Retaining the dead -- Westerns and falsehoods -- The forming of a cult -- A brand that sticks -- A perpetual present : death and the war film. An absurd death -- The Hollywood war machine -- The exception of state -- Conclusions : the ends of classical death. Billy Wilder and Hollywood's "Auschwitz" -- The vicissitudes of the killability test -- The virtual Frankenstein -- notes -- index -- More info
book		The great audience / by Gilbert Seldes Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, [1970, c1950]. Call No: 41(73) SEL Author: Seldes, Gilbert Source: US Place: Westport, Conn Publisher: Greenwood Press PubDate: [1970, c1950] PhysDes: viii, 299 p. ; 23 cm Subject: AUDIENCES; AUDIENCES, US; AUDIENCE RECEPTION; AUDIENCE RESEARCH. USA; USA. 1940's; USA. 1950's; INDUSTRY, TV. USA; INDUSTRY, FILM. USA Summary: The author describes mass media in the USA in 1950 (film, radio, and television) as creative arts and examines how they operate and how they interact with the audience and society. ISBN: 0837128021 More info
book		Hollywood in the fifties New York: A. S. Barnes, [1971]. Call No: 71(73) GOW Author: Gow, Gordon Place: New York Publisher: A. S. Barnes PubDate: [1971] PhysDes: 208 p. illus. 16 cm Subject: USA. 1950's ISBN: 0498078590 LON: 718911 More info
Interim book		New Hollywood Cinema : an introduction / Geoff King New York: I.B. Tauris, 2002. Call No: 71(73) KIN Author: King, Geoff Source: USA Place: New York Publisher: I.B. Tauris PubDate: 2002 PhysDes: 296 p. ; 23 cm Subject: BLOCKBUSTERS; GENRES; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1950's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1960's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1970's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1980's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1990's; USA. 1950's; USA. 1960's; USA. 1970's Summary: Recent Hollywood is examined from three main perspectives: film style, industry and social-historical context. Each is considered in its own right, sometimes resulting in different ways of defining New Hollywood. One of the book's central arguments is that a combination of these approaches is needed if we are to understand the latest incarnations of the cinema that continues to dominate the global market. Issues covered include: the Hollywood Renaissance from the late 1960s to the mid late 1970s; industrial factors shaping the construction of the corporate blockbuster; the role of auteur directors, genre and stardom in New Hollywood; narrative spectacle in the contemporary blockbuster and the relationship between production for the big and small screen. Notes: Bibliography: p.274-284 Index: p.285-296 ISBN: 1860647499 (hbk.) 1860647502 (pbk.) More info
book		Seeing is believing : how Hollywood taught us to stop worrying and love the fifties / Peter Biskind New York: Pantheon Books, c1983. Call No: 71(73) BIS Author: Biskind, Peter Edition: 1st ed Place: New York Publisher: Pantheon Books PubDate: c1983 PhysDes: x, 371 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: USA. 1950's Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 0394721152 (pbk.) : $10.95; 0394527291 : $22.95 LON: 2607009 2607009 More info

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