Comprising over 90 essays and richly illustrated with over 200 images, the Wiley-Blackwell History of American Film provides a chronological portrait of American film history from its origins to the present day. Taken as a whole, the essays in this collection represent a compreh…
Offers an understanding of race in America through an analysis of theater and film of the early twentieth century. This work argues that economic, political, and cultural forces present in the eras of silent film and the early "talkies" firmly entrenched limited representations …
Slapstick comedy and its cast of film stars' Charlie Chaplin, the Keystone Cops, Fatty Arbuckle, and Buster Keaton among them' has long been viewed as central to the early formal development of narrative cinema generally, and of American cinema in particular. This new volume in …
by Rojas, Carlos, Chow, Eileen Cheng-yin
fromOxford Handbooks
