Americanizing the movies and "movie-mad" audiences, 1910-1914 [[electronic resource] /] / Richard Abel |
Autore | Abel Richard <1941-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (392 p.) |
Disciplina | 791.430973 |
Soggetto topico |
Motion pictures - United States - History
Motion pictures - Social aspects - United States Nationalism - United States |
Soggetto non controllato |
1910s
american cinema american history americanizing film animal films anthropologists cinema studies civil war films critical analysis detective films early cinema film distribution film historians film industry film scholars film studies immigrant culture movie audiences moviegoing national identity nonfiction study popular film genres sensational melodramas sociologists united states westerns working class culture |
ISBN |
1-282-35839-1
0-520-93952-2 9786612358395 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- L'Envoi of Moving Pictures -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. American Variety and/or Foreign Features -- Entr'acte 1. Mapping the Local Terrain of Exhibition -- Chapter 2. The "Usable Past" of Westerns -- Entr'acte 2. Moviegoing Habits and Everyday Life -- Chapter 3. The "Usable Past" of Westerns -- Entr'acte 3. A "Forgotten" Part of the Program -- Chapter 4. The "Usable Past" of Civil War Films -- Entr'acte 4. Another "Forgotten" Part of the Program -- Chapter 5. The "Usable Present" of Thrillers -- Entr'acte 5. Trash Twins -- Chapter 6. "The Power of Personality in Pictures" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Altri titoli varianti | Imagined community of United States cinema |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782201003321 |
Abel Richard <1941-> | ||
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2006 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Film criticism, the Cold War, and the blacklist : reading the Hollywood Reds / / Jeff Smith |
Autore | Smith Jeff <1962 December 17-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (365 p.) |
Disciplina | 791.43/6582825 |
Soggetto topico |
Motion pictures - Political aspects - United States
Motion pictures - United States - History - 20th century Cold War in motion pictures Communism and motion pictures - United States Blacklisting of entertainers - United States - History - 20th century |
Soggetto non controllato |
20th century american culture
20th century american history allegory american entertainment culture american films anti communist propaganda cold war communism critical lens entertainment blacklist film and television film criticism film history historical films hollywood blacklist hollywood house committee on un american activities huac literary allegory movie studies police procedures political politics postwar period propaganda films propaganda science fiction films villains westerns |
ISBN |
0-520-28068-7
0-520-95851-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: What More Can Be Said about the Hollywood Blacklist? -- 1. A Bifocal View of Hollywood during the Blacklist Period: Film as Propaganda and Allegory -- 2. I Was a Communist for RKO: Hollywood Anti-Communism and the Problem of Representing Political Beliefs -- 3. Reds and Blacks: Representing Race in Anti-Communist Films -- 4. Stoolies, Cheese-Eaters, and Tie Sellers: Genre, Allegory, and the HUAC Informer -- 5. The Cross and the Sickle: Allegorical Representations of the Blacklist in Historical Films -- 6. Roaming the Plains along the "New Frontier": The Western as Allegory of the Blacklist and the Cold War -- 7. Loving the Alien: Science Fiction Cinema as Cold War Allegory -- Conclusion: Old Wounds and the Texas Sharpshooter -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790960603321 |
Smith Jeff <1962 December 17-> | ||
Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Film criticism, the Cold War, and the blacklist : reading the Hollywood Reds / / Jeff Smith |
Autore | Smith Jeff <1962 December 17-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (365 p.) |
Disciplina | 791.43/6582825 |
Soggetto topico |
Motion pictures - Political aspects - United States
Motion pictures - United States - History - 20th century Cold War in motion pictures Communism and motion pictures - United States Blacklisting of entertainers - United States - History - 20th century |
Soggetto non controllato |
20th century american culture
20th century american history allegory american entertainment culture american films anti communist propaganda cold war communism critical lens entertainment blacklist film and television film criticism film history historical films hollywood blacklist hollywood house committee on un american activities huac literary allegory movie studies police procedures political politics postwar period propaganda films propaganda science fiction films villains westerns |
ISBN |
0-520-28068-7
0-520-95851-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: What More Can Be Said about the Hollywood Blacklist? -- 1. A Bifocal View of Hollywood during the Blacklist Period: Film as Propaganda and Allegory -- 2. I Was a Communist for RKO: Hollywood Anti-Communism and the Problem of Representing Political Beliefs -- 3. Reds and Blacks: Representing Race in Anti-Communist Films -- 4. Stoolies, Cheese-Eaters, and Tie Sellers: Genre, Allegory, and the HUAC Informer -- 5. The Cross and the Sickle: Allegorical Representations of the Blacklist in Historical Films -- 6. Roaming the Plains along the "New Frontier": The Western as Allegory of the Blacklist and the Cold War -- 7. Loving the Alien: Science Fiction Cinema as Cold War Allegory -- Conclusion: Old Wounds and the Texas Sharpshooter -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910816881103321 |
Smith Jeff <1962 December 17-> | ||
Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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