Grand Design: Hollywood as a Modern Business Enterprise, 1930-1939.
Celebrated as "Hollywood's greatest year," 1939 has often been considered the apex of the studio system and the movies it produced, including Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Stagecoach, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and so many other memorable pictures. It was a time when …
Stalinism and Soviet Cinema marks the first attempt to confront systematically the role and influence of Stalin and Stalinism in the history and development of Soviet cinema. The collection provides comprehensive coverage of the antecedents, role and consequences of Stalinism an…
'Nixon at the Movies' draws on biography, politics, cultural history, and film criticism to show just how deeply in the twentieth-century American grain lies the pair of seemingly incongruous nouns in its title.
" ... Takes a new and often revelatory approach to looking at Nixon's career--and Hollywood's. From the obvious (All the President's Men) to the less so (Elvis Presley movies and Nixon's relationship to '60s youth culture) to several onscreen "alternate" Nixons (Fred MacMurray i…
Argues that the Disney company's version of multiculturalism is really the same "old groove"--a surreptitious colonizing force that manipulates the psychological, cultural, and political identitites of consumers, predominantly children. [back cover].
Argues that the Disney company's version of multiculturalism is really the same "old groove"--a surreptitious colonizing force that manipulates the psychological, cultural, and political identitites of consumers, predominantly children. [back cover].
And Yoko Ono, and finally the critical assessment of his own films, from Guns of the Trees and The Brig in the sixties to the diary films that followed Walden. Film-distributor, and filmmaker, while exploring the history of independent cinema in New York since World War II. Thi…
And Yoko Ono, and finally the critical assessment of his own films, from Guns of the Trees and The Brig in the sixties to the diary films that followed Walden. Film-distributor, and filmmaker, while exploring the history of independent cinema in New York since World War II. Thi…
Jonas Mekas, one of the driving forces behind New York's alternative film culture from the 1950s through the 1980s, made for an unlikely counterculture hero: a Lithuanian emigre and fervent nationalist from an agrarian family, he had not grown up with either capitalist commercia…
Bibliografie : p. 480-491 Met reg. 1e uitg. : 1985 Analysis of the basic conditions of American filmmaking as an historical institution: the stylistic norms fundamental to Hollywood filmmaking from 1917 to 1960; the economic, stylistic and technological aspects of pre-1930 filmm…
