The Film Book Bibliography, 1940-1975

The Film Book Bibliography, 1940-1975

Author: Jack C. Ellis

Publisher: Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 776

ISBN-13:

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Subject-organised listing of books published in English between 1940 and 1975 which deal with the various aspects of the motion picture. Includes monographs and unpublished doctoral dissertations.


The Catholic Crusade Against the Movies, 1940-1975

The Catholic Crusade Against the Movies, 1940-1975

Author: Gregory D. Black

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1998-01-13

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780521629058

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For more than three decades the Catholic church, through its Legion of Decency, had the power to control the content of Hollywood films. From the mid-1930s to the late 1960s the Catholic Legion served as a moral guardian for the American public. Hollywood studios submitted their films to the Legion for a rating, which varied from general approval to condemnation. This book details how a religious organisation got control of Hollywood, and how films like A Streetcar Named Desire, Lolita, and Tea and Sympathy were altered by the Legion to make them morally acceptable. Documenting the inner workings of the Legion, The Catholic Crusade against the Movies also examines how the changes in the movie industry, and American society at large in the post-World War II era, eventually conspired against the Legion's power and so lead to its demise.


Film – An International Bibliography

Film – An International Bibliography

Author: Malte Hagener

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-12-16

Total Pages: 489

ISBN-13: 3476036863

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Kommentierte Bibliografie. Sie gibt Wissenschaftlern, Studierenden und Journalisten zuverlässig Auskunft über rund 6000 internationale Veröffentlichungen zum Thema Film und Medien. Die vorgestellten Rubriken reichen von Nachschlagewerk über Filmgeschichte bis hin zu Fernsehen, Video, Multimedia.


The Complete History of American Film Criticism

The Complete History of American Film Criticism

Author: Jerry Roberts

Publisher: Santa Monica Press

Published: 2010-02-19

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 1595809228

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The Complete History of American Film Criticism is a chronicle of the lives and work of the most influential film critics of the past 100 years. From the first movie review in the New York Times in 1896 through the Silent Era, the pre- and postwar years, the Film Generation of the 1960s, the Golden Age of the 1970s, and into the 21st century, critics have educated generations of discriminating moviegoers on the differences between good films and bad. They call attention to great directors, cinematographers, production designers, screenwriters, and actors, and shed light on their artistic visions and storytelling sensibilities. People interested in what the great film critics had to say have usually been shortchanged as to their backgrounds, and just why they are qualified to sit in judgment. Using mini-biographies, placed within a chronological framework, The Complete History of American Film Criticism is the biography of a profession whose cultural impact has left an indelible mark on the 20th century’s most significant art form.


Hollywood's America

Hollywood's America

Author: Steven Mintz

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2016-03-07

Total Pages: 453

ISBN-13: 1118976495

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Fully revised, updated, and extended, the fifth edition of Hollywood’s America provides an important compilation of interpretive essays and primary documents that allows students to read films as cultural artifacts within the contexts of actual past events. A new edition of this classic textbook, which ties movies into the broader narrative of US and film history This fifth edition contains nine new chapters, with a greater overall emphasis on recent film history, and new primary source documents which are unavailable online Entries range from the first experiments with motion pictures all the way to the present day Well-organized within a chronological framework with thematic treatments to provide a valuable resource for students of the history of American film


Slavery & Race in American Popular Culture

Slavery & Race in American Popular Culture

Author: William L. Van Deburg

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780299096342

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Spanning more than three centuries, from the colonial era to the present, Van Deburg's overview analyzes the works of American historians, dramatists, novelists, poets, lyricists, and filmmakers -- and exposes, through those artists' often disquieting perceptions, the cultural underpinnings of American current racial attitudes and divisions. Crucial to Van Deburg's analysis is his contrast of black and white attitudes toward the Afro-American slave experience. There has, in fact, been a persistent dichotomy between the two races' literary, historical, and theatrical representations of slavery. If white culture-makers have stressed the "unmanning" of the slaves and encouraged such steteotypes as the Noble Savage and the comic minstrel to justify the blacks' subordination, Afro-Americans have emphasized a counter self-image that celebrates the slaves' creativity, dignity, pride, and assertiveness. ISBN 0-299-09634-3 (pbk.) : $12.50.


Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Author: Cheryl Bray Lower

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780786409877

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The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The Barefoot Contessa, and All About Eve -- just three of the most well-known films of writer, director, and producer Joseph L. Mankiewicz. This work contains, first, critical essays about the man and his work, and then presents a guide to resources, an annotated bibliography, and a filmography. The essays on each of his films are categorized under Mankiewicz's Dark Cinema, The Mankiewicz Woman, Filmed Theatre, and Literary Adaptations.


American Studies

American Studies

Author: Jack Salzman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1986-08-29

Total Pages: 980

ISBN-13: 9780521266871

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A major three-volume bibliography, including an additional supplement, of an annotated listing of American Studies monographs published between 1900 and 1988.