Classic Hollywood : lifestyles and film styles of American cinema, 1930-1960 /

"Studies of "Classic Hollywood" typically treat Hollywood films released from 1930 to 1960 as a single interpretive mass. Veronica Pravadelli complicates this idea. Focusing on dominant tendencies in box office hits and Oscar-recognized classics, she breaks down the so-called classic...

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التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Pravadelli, Veronica, 1964- (مؤلف)
مؤلفون آخرون: Meadows, Michael Theodore (المترجم)
التنسيق: Licensed eBooks
اللغة:الإنجليزية
الإيطالية
منشور في: Urbana : University of Illinois Press 2014.
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/j.ctt6wr582
جدول المحتويات:
  • Introduction: classical Hollywood cinema and film studies
  • The early thirties: modernity, new women, and the aesthetic of attractions
  • Normative desires and visual sobriety: apogee of the classical model
  • The male subject of noir and the modern gaze
  • (Dis)adventures of female desire in the 1940s woman's film
  • Excess, spectacle, sensation: family melodrama in the 1950s
  • Performative bodies and non-referential images: excesses of the musical.