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Cultures of American Film by Robert P. Kolker (2014, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-100199753423
ISBN-139780199753420
eBay Product ID (ePID)202496895
Product Key Features
Number of Pages384 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameCultures of American Film
SubjectFilm / General
Publication Year2014
TypeTextbook
AuthorRobert P. Kolker
Subject AreaPerforming Arts
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight49.4 Oz
Item Length9.1 in
Item Width7.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2014-008962
Dewey Edition23
TitleLeadingThe
Reviews"Lively, informal, provocative, and unintimidating-in short, student-friendly! The book serves as a fine introduction to American film, with a nice balance of historical and cultural context and extended looks at particular directors and their films." ---Gregory Miller, California State University, Bakersfield, "Lively, informal, provocative, and unintimidating-in short, student-friendly! The book serves as a fine introduction to American film, with a nice balance of historical and cultural context and extended looks at particular directors and their films."-Gregory Miller, California State University, Bakersfield "This book addresses what many film texts lack: the role of culture. It offers a historical retelling of film from the perspective of the filmmakers who shaped American life."-Courtney Feldscher, Boston University "A well-written and compact work that is accessible and that will benefit a broad range of students in a diversity of courses."-Sam Girgus, Vanderbilt University
Number of Volumes1 vol.
Dewey Decimal791.430973
SynopsisThe Cultures of American Film integrates a number of approaches to the study of movies. Its chronological organization provides a historical overview, a survey of films across the decades from cinema's invention to the present. Its analytical approach addresses form and content: how films work and how we respond to them. By putting films in their cultural contexts, it examines how films fit into our lives and their own: that is, the life of film itself; the technologies that made them possible; the studios in which they were made; the filmmakers' struggles with politics and censorship. The Cultures of American Film covers movements, directions and directors, genres, the structures of films and their audiences.American film and its audience engage in a process of ongoing negotiation: will a film gain an audience? What kind of audience? A broad one, consisting of ages 18-46, the demographic most desired? Will the film have "legs," bringing in more viewers by word of mouth and repeat viewers? Will a film be made for a smaller audience, made with a small budget and perhaps attempting to experiment somewhat with form and content? What do you as a viewer expect from a film? Do you want simple entertainment, an escape from the everyday? Do you want a film to engage in complex emotions or even ideas? What satisfies you most when you see a film? Do you respond most to acting and the presence of stars? Do you like digital spectacle with superheroes? Do you prefer more intimate dramas or films with sex and violence?All of this and more make up the cultures of American film. Production and reception (that's you, the viewer, responding to a film), the history of events surrounding and sometimes absorbed by a film, the ways in which film speaks to us and we to it constitute a constellation of events and interactions that we will examine in the course of this book. In chronological order, we will analyze the ways in which films work as part of the cultures of their own making as well as the larger structures of their society. We will make general observations and close analyses of particular films, talk about how and why films are made, and investigate the kinds of responses that they require and desire. Included at the end of each chapter are suggestions for further reading and suggestions for further critical analysis of the issues presented in the chapter. The aim, finally, is not to be inclusive but rather an attempt to discover connections, interactions, even surprises when film, its makers, its audience, and the culture they are part of interact., Since its inception in 1894, American film has developed many genres and created many important directors and stars, while maintaining an intensely loyal audience. How has this incredibly popular medium managed to stay so relevant for more than a century? The Cultures of American Film 's chronological organization provides a historical overview of film, while its analytical approach addresses form and content: how films work and how we respond to them. Placing films in their cultural contexts, it examines and analyzes the ways in which film works on an individual level and within society. The text provides close analyses of films from the nineteenth century to present day, discusses how and why films are made, and investigates the responses that films require and we desire. Suggestions for further reading and critical analysis appear at the end of each chapter., A chronological look at the development of American film, featuring case studies that shed light on classic and contemporary films that are particularly revealing of American culture and values.
LC Classification NumberPN1993.5.U6K575 2015
