Looking past the screen
Subtitle: case studies in American film history and method
By: edited by Jon Lewis and Eric Smoodin.
Contributors: Lewis, Jon, 1955-; Smoodin, Eric Loren
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780822338079; 9780822338215
Subjects: Motion pictures -- United States -- History; Film criticism -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The beginnings of American film study / Dana Polan; title: The perfect money machine(s) / Jon Lewis; title: Lois Weber and the celebrity of matronly respectability / Shelley Stamp; title: Tempting fate / Mark Anderson; title: The crafting of a political icon / Andrea Slane; title: Going Hollywood sooner or later / Eric Smoodin; title: Plain brown wrapper / Eric Schaefer; title: Ethnography and exhibition / Richard deCordova; title: Dish night at the movies / Kathy H. Fuller-Seeley; title: A treatise on decay / David M. Lugowski; title: Murnau in America / Janet Bergstrom; title: The American origins of film noir / Sumiko Higashi.