American Cinema/American Culture - Softcover

Belton, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 007004466X ISBN 13: 9780070044661

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 1993

Synopsis

Developed to accompany the Annenberg-funded telecourse American Cinema, and written under the aegis of The New York Center for Visual History, this text offers a fascinating look at the interplay between the movie industry and mass culture in America.

Ideal for film appreciation and film and culture courses found in Cinema Studies, English, History, American Studies, or other departments, American Cinema/American Culture first examines the industry, its narrative conventions, and its cinematographic style.

Following this introduction, students are exposed to the sweep of film history in the U.S. using five genres as the bases for discussion and focusing on the point at which each had the greatest affect on the industry, film aesthetics, and American culture.

Finally, the book concludes with a look at Hollywood post World War II, giving separate chapter coverage to the effects of the Cold War, television, the counterculture of the Sixties, directors from the film school generation, and the trends of the Eighties and Nineties.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 007004466X
• ISBN 13: 9780070044661
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400