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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| Formato: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press
©1985.
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| Acceso en liña: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv131bv2q |
Table of Contents:
- 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.