Looking past the screen : case studies in American film history and method / edited by Jon Lewis and Eric Smoodin.

Other author Lewis, Jon, 1955-
Other author Smoodin, Eric Loren.
Format Book
Publication InfoDurham : Duke University Press, 2007.
Descriptionx, 413 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects

Contents The beginnings of American film study / Dana Polan -- The perfect money machine(s) : George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and auteurism in the new Hollywood / Jon Lewis -- Lois Weber and the celebrity of matronly respectability / Shelley Stamp -- Tempting fate : Clara Smith hamon, or The secretary as producer / Mark Lynn Anderson -- The crafting of a political icon : Lola Lola on paper / Andrea Slane -- Going Hollywood sooner or later : Chinese censorship and The bitter tea of General Yen / Eric Smoodin -- Plain brown wrapper : adult films for the home market, 1930-1969 / Eric Schaefer -- Ethnography and exhibition : the child audience, the Hays office, and Saturday matinees / Richard deCordova -- Dish night at the movies : exhibitor promotions and female audiences during the Great Depression / Kathy H. Fuller-Seeley -- "A treatise on decay" : liberal and leftist critics and their queer readings of Depression-era U.S. film / David M. Lugowski -- Murnau in America : chronicle of lost films (4 devils, City girl) / Janet Bergstrom -- The American origins of film noir : realism in urban art and The naked city / Sumiko Higashi.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [381]-396) and index.
LCCN 2007008325
ISBN9780822338079 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0822338076 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780822338215 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0822338211 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PN 1993.5.U6 L58 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold