The Hollywood sign: fantasy and reality of an American icon
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"[This book] explores the different ways in which Italian American directors from the 1920s to the present have responded to their ethnicity. While some directors have used film to declare their ethnic roots and create an Italian American 'imagined community, ' others have ignor…
Product Description: This title considers the history of the American blockbuster-the large-scale, high-cost film-as it evolved from the 1890s to today. The pantheon of big-budget, commercially successful films encompasses a range of genres, including biblical films, war films, …
Barry Langford explains and interrogates the concept of postclassical Hollywood cinema - its coherence, historical justification, and value in helping or hindering our understanding of Hollywood from the forties to today. Merging film history together with movies' social and pol…
At the end of World War II, Hollywood basked in unprecedented prosperity. Since then, numerous challenges and crises have changed the American film industry in ways beyond imagination in 1945. Nonetheless, at the start of a new century Hollywood's worldwide dominance is intact -…
An investigation of the cultural practices and belief systems of Los Angeles based film and video production workers.
"In Production Culture, John Thornton Caldwell investigates the cultural practices and belief systems of Los Angeles-based film and video production workers: not only those in prestigious positions such as producers and directors but also many "below-the-line" laborers, includin…
