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Umfang: 1 online resource (400 p.) : , 26 illustrations

ISBN: 9780822390138

Inhalt: Film scholarship has long been dominated by textual interpretations of specific films. Looking Past the Screen advances a more expansive American film studies in which cinema is understood to be a social, political, and cultural phenomenon extending far beyond the screen. Presenting a model of film studies in which films themselves are only one source of information among many, this volume brings together film histories that draw on primary sources including collections of personal papers, popular and trade journalism, fan magazines, studio publications, and industry records.Focusing on Hollywood cinema from the teens to the 1970s, these case studies show the value of this extraordinary range of historical materials in developing interdisciplinary approaches to film stardom, regulation, reception, and production. The contributors examine State Department negotiations over the content of American films shown abroad; analyze the star image of Clara Smith Hamon, who was notorious for having murdered her lover; and consider film journalists’ understanding of the arrival of auteurist cinema in Hollywood as it was happening during the early 1970s. One contributor chronicles the development of film studies as a scholarly discipline; another offers a sociopolitical interpretation of the origins of film noir. Still another brings to light Depression-era film reviews and Production Code memos so sophisticated in their readings of representations of sexuality that they undermine the perception that queer interpretations of film are a recent development. Looking Past the Screen suggests methods of historical research, and it encourages further thought about the modes of inquiry that structure the discipline of film studies.Contributors. Mark Lynn Anderson, Janet Bergstrom, Richard deCordova, Kathryn Fuller-Seeley, Sumiko Higashi, Jon Lewis, David M. Lugowski, Dana Polan, Eric Schaefer, Andrea Slane, Eric Smoodin, Shelley Stamp

Anmerkung: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction. The History of Film History -- , I. Institutional Histories -- , The Beginnings of America n Film Study -- , The Perfect Money Machine(s) -- , II. Star Studies -- , Lois Weber and the Celebrity of Matronly Respectability -- , Tempting Fate -- , The Crafting of a Political Icon -- , III. Regulation -- , Going Hollywood Sooner or Later -- , Plain Brown Wrapper -- , IV. Reception -- , Ethnography and Exhibition -- , Dish Night at the Movies -- , “A Treatise on Decay” -- , V. Production -- , Murnau in America -- , The America n Origins of Film Noir -- , Bibliography -- , Contributors -- , Index , In English.

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.1515/9780822390138

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822390138

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822390138

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Umfang: 1 online resource (425 p.)

ISBN: 1-282-92344-7 , 9786612923449 , 0-8223-9013-2

Serie: e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Inhalt: A collection of essays illustrating new methods and theories of film history.

Anmerkung: Description based upon print version of record. , The beginnings of American film study / Dana Polan -- The perfect money machine(s) : George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and auteurism in the new Hollywood / Jon Lewis -- Lois Weber and the celebrity of matronly respectability / Shelley Stamp -- Tempting fate : Clara Smith hamon, or The secretary as producer / Mark Lynn Anderson -- The crafting of a political icon : Lola Lola on paper / Andrea Slane -- Going Hollywood sooner or later : Chinese censorship and The bitter tea of General Yen / Eric Smoodin -- Plain brown wrapper : adult films for the home market, 1930-1969 / Eric Schaefer -- Ethnography and exhibition : the child audience, the Hays office, and Saturday matinees / Richard deCordova -- Dish night at the movies : exhibitor promotions and female audiences during the Great Depression / Kathy H. Fuller-Seeley -- "A treatise on decay" : liberal and leftist critics and their queer readings of Depression-era U.S. film / David M. Lugowski -- Murnau in America : chronicle of lost films (4 devils, City girl) / Janet Bergstrom -- The American origins of film noir : realism in urban art and The naked city / Sumiko Higashi. , English

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 0-8223-3821-1

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 0-8223-3807-6

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.1515/9780822390138