Study guide to accompany American cinema, American culture
By: by Ed Sikov
Contributors: Belton, John, author; Belton, John
Edition: 3rd edition.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780077265472
Copyright date: 2009
Subjects: Motion pictures; History; Study and teaching; Motion picture industry; Cinéma; Histoire; Étude et enseignement; Industrie; Aspect social; Social aspects
Description: This book serves as supplementary material to the text "American Cinema/American Culture". it is designed to enable you to gain a working knowledge of American film history, from the silent cinema to the present day; to develop your cinematic literacy; to understand how the technology of the cinema relates to film art; to see and understand the place of Hollywood film in American popular culture; to grasp a fundamental understanding of the economics of the film industry; to understand the role of genre in American film history; to develop a more sophisticated conception of "realism" as it relates to motion pictures; and to question your own role as a passive spectator, and increase your ability to watch films actively and critically.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Hollywood Style; title: The Studio System; title: The Star; title: The Western; title: The Musical; title: American Comedy; title: War and Cinema; title: Film Noir; title: Hollywood in the Age of Television; title: The Film School Generation; title: Into 21st Century; title: Film Language; title: Thinking and Writing about Film; title: Classical Hollywood Style and Beyond.