American Cinema/American Culture https://www.mheducation.com/cover-images/Jpeg_400-high/0073514292.jpeg 5 9780073514291 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.
American Cinema/American Culture

American Cinema/American Culture

5th Edition
By John Belton
ISBN10: 0073514292
ISBN13: 9780073514291
Copyright: 2018
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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

About the Author

John Belton

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