American Cinema/American Culture / Edition 4

by John Belton

Overview

American Cinema/American Culture, 5th Edition, looks at the interplay between American cinema and mass culture from the 1890s to 2017. Students are introduced to the cultural history of film focusing on topics and issues rather than on rote learning. This introduction to American Cinema is ideal for introductory courses of American cinema, American film history courses, and introductory film appreciation courses. The text provides a cultural overview of the phenomenon of the American moviegoing experience, engagingly written in a lively and entertaining style by John Belton, a preeminent scholar in the field of film studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780073535098
Publisher:	McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Publication date:	01/20/2012
Pages:	480
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

PART 1 THE MODE OF PRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1 THE EMERGENCE OF THE CINEMA AS AN INSTITUTION

CHAPTER 2 CLASSICAL HOLLYWOOD CINEMA: NARRATION

CHAPTER 3 CLASSICAL HOLLYWOOD CINEMA: STYLE

CHAPTER 4 THE STUDIO SYSTEM

CHAPTER 5 THE STAR SYSTEM

PART 2 GENRE AND THE GENRE SYSTEM

CHAPTER 6 SILENT FILM MELODRAMA

CHAPTER 7 THE MUSICAL

CHAPTER 8 AMERICAN COMEDY

CHAPTER 9 WAR AND CINEMA

CHAPTER 10 FILM NOIR: SOMEWHERE IN THE NIGHT

CHAPTER 11 THE MAKING OF THE WEST

CHAPTER 12 HORROR AND SCIENCE FICTION

PART 3 A POSTWAR HISTORY

CHAPTER 13 HOLLYWOOD AND THE COLD WAR

CHAPTER 14 HOLLYWOOD IN THE AGE OF TELEVISION

CHAPTER 15 THE 1960S: THE COUNTERCULTURE STRIKES BACK

CHAPTER 16 THE FILM SCHOOL GENERATION

CHAPTER 17 INTO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

Glossary of Technical and Other Terms

Index