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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 ; AMERICAN INDIANS 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 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: HOLLYWOOD ; 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 ; BLACKS 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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