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American Cinema/American Culture » (3rd Edition)
Authors: John Belton
ISBN-13: 9780073386157, ISBN-10: 0073386154
Format: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Date Published: November 2008
Edition: 3rd Edition
Author Biography: John Belton
Book Synopsis
Ideal for Introduction to American Cinema courses, American Film History courses, and Introductory Film Appreciation courses focused on American Film, this text offers a cultural examination of the American movie-making industry, with particular attention paid to the economic and aesthetic institution of Hollywood.
Table of Contents
| Preface | ||
| Introduction | ||
| Ch. 1 | The Emergence of the Cinema as an Institution | 3 |
| Ch. 2 | Classical Hollywood Cinema: Narration | 21 |
| Ch. 3 | Classical Hollywood Cinema: Style | 41 |
| Ch. 4 | The Studio System | 61 |
| Ch. 5 | The Star System | 83 |
| Ch. 6 | Silent Film Melodrama | 117 |
| Ch. 7 | American Comedy | 135 |
| Ch. 8 | The War Film | 164 |
| Ch. 9 | Film Noir: Somewhere in the Night | 184 |
| Ch. 10 | The Making of the West | 206 |
| Ch. 11 | Hollywood and the Cold War | 233 |
| Ch. 12 | Hollywood in the Age of Television | 257 |
| Ch. 13 | The 1960s: the Counterculture Strikes Back | 275 |
| Ch. 14 | The Film School Generation | 298 |
| Ch. 15 | Into the 1990s: Bringing It All Back Home | 322 |
| Glossary of Terms | 347 | |
| Index | 355 |
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