A certain tendency of the Hollywood cinema, 1930-1980 /

Robert B. Ray examines the ideology of the most enduringly popular cinema in the world--the Hollywood movie. Aided by 364 frame enlargements, he describes the development of that historically overdetermined form, giving close readings of five typical instances: Casablanca, It's a Wonderful Life...

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Autor principal: Ray, Robert B. (Robert Beverley), 1943-
Format: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press ©1985.
Accés en línia:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv131bv2q
Taula de continguts:
  • pt. 1. Classic Hollywood (1930-1945): A certain tendency of the American cinema: classic Hollywood's formal and thematic paradigms
  • Real and disguised Westerns: classic Hollywood's variations of its thematic paradigms
  • The culmination of classic Hollywood: Casablanca
  • Classic Hollywood's holding pattern: the combat films of World War II
  • pt. 2. The postwar period (1946-1966): The dissolution of the homogeneous audience and Hollywood's response: cult films, problem pictures, and inflation
  • The discrepancy between intent and effect: Film noir, youth rebellion pictures, musicals, and Westerns
  • Its a wonderful life and The man who shot Liberty Valance
  • pt. 3. The contemporary period (1967-1980): The 1960s: frontier metaphors, developing self-consciousness, and new waves
  • The left and right cycles
  • The godfather and Taxi driver.