American Film And Society Since 1945 » (3rd Edition)

LEONARD QUART is Professor of Cinema Studies at the College of Staten Island and at the CUNY Graduate Center. His essays and articles have appeared in Film Quarterly, Dissent, The Forward, and London Magazine, among others, and for over twenty years, he has been an editor and contributing editor of Cineaste. He is the co-author of books including The Films of Mike Leigh and How the War was Remembered: Hollywood and Vietnam (Praeger, 1988).

ALBERT AUSTER is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University and a research associate at the McGannon Communications Research Center. He is a frequent contributor to Television Quarterly, The Journal of Popular Film and Television, and other journals, and is the author or co-author of books including How the War was Remembered: Hollywood and Vietnam (Praeger, 1988).

Explores the political and cultural significance of most major American films made since 1945 and the ways in which films help to convey some of the central commitments of American society.

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A decade-by-decade survey of the critically or popularly acclaimed films since the end of World War II, considering their social and culture significance, and the formal elements that have shaped the art. Only five illustrations. The first edition was published in 1984. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)