Fifty Key American Films

by John White (Editor), Sabine Haenni (Editor)

Overview

Fifty Key American Films explores and contextualises some of the most important films ever made in the United States. With case studies from the early years of cinema to the present day, this comprehensive Key Guide provides accessible analyses from a range of theoretical perspectives.

This chronologically ordered volume includes coverage of:

• Citizen Kane
• Casablanca
• Psycho
• Taxi Driver
• Blade Runner
• Pulp Fiction

Amongst a raft of well-known films, the work of some of America’s best known directors, such as Lynch, Scorsese, Coppola and Scott, is discussed. This book is essential reading for students of film, and will be of interest to anyone seeking to explore the impact of American cinema.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415772976
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/12/2009
Series:	Routledge Key Guides
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

John White is teacher of Film, English and Media at Parkside Community College and Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge. He is co-author of AS Film Studies: The Essential Introduction, A2 Film Studies: The Essential Introduction, and co-editor of Fifty Key British Films, also published by Routledge.

Sabine Haenni teaches Film and American Studies at Cornell University. She is the author of The Immigrant Scene: Ethnic Amusements in New York 1880-1920 and has published widely on popular theatre, early cinema and realist fiction.

Table of Contents

Birth of a Nation (1915); Sherlock Jr (1924); Sunrise (1927); The Wild Party (1929); Applause (1929); Scarface (1932); Freaks (1932); Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933); It Happened One Night (1934); Modern Times (1936); Gone With the Wind (1939); Stagecoach (1939); His Girl Friday (1940); Citizen Kane (1941) Robert Shail; Cat People (1942); Casablanca (1942); Double Indemnity (1944); Mildred Pierce (1945); Gun Crazy (1949); Singin’ in the Rain (1952); On the Waterfront (1954); Rebel without a Cause (1955); The Searchers (1956); Invasion of the Bodysnatchers (1956); Psycho (1960); The Misfits (1961); The West Side Story (1961); Bonnie and Clyde (1967); Night of the Living Dead (1968); The Wild Bunch (1969); Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971); The Godfather (1972); Chinatown (1974); Taxi Driver (1976); Killer of Sheep (1977); Star Wars (1977); Apocalypse Now (1979); Blade Runner (1982); Blue Velvet (1982); Aliens (1986); sex, lies, and videotape (1989); Do the Right Thing (1989); Thelma and Louise (1991); Daughters of the Dust (1991); Short Cuts (1993); Pulp Fiction (1994); Dead Man (1995); Se7en (1995); The Incredibles (2004); Brokeback Mountain (2005)

Editorial Reviews

'Fifty Key American Films is a book full of good, well-crafter writing about cinema' - MEA

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