Lewis / Smoodin Looking Past the Screen

Case Studies in American Film History and Method
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9013-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 400 Seiten

A collection of essays illustrating new methods and theories of film history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lewis, Jon

Smoodin, Eric

Weitere Mitwirkende

Polan, Dana

Stamp, Shelley

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: The History of Film History / Eric Smoodin 1

I. Institutional Histories 35

The Beginning of American Film Study / Dana Polan 37

The Perfect Money Machine(s): George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and Auteurism in the New Hollywood / Jon Lewis 61

II. Star Studies 87

Lois Weber and the Celebrity of Matronly Respectability / Shelley Stamp 89

Tempting Fate: Clara Smith Hamon, or, The Secretary as Producer / Mark Lynn Anderson 117

The Crafting of a Political Icon: Lola Lola on Paper / Andrea Slane 151

III. Regulation 167

Going Hollywood Sooner or Later: Chinese Censorship and The Bitter Tea of General Yen / Eric Smoodin 169

Plain Brown Wrapper: Adult Films for the Home Market, 1930-1969 / Eric Schaefer 201

IV. Reception 227

Ethnography and Exhibition: The Child Audience, The Hays Office, and Saturday Matinees / Richard deCordova 229

Dish Night at the Movies: Exhibitor Promotions and Female Audiences during the Great Depression / Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley 246

“A Treatise on Decay”: Liberal and Leftist Critics and Their Queer Readings of Depression-Era U.S. Film / David M. Lugowski 276

V. Production 301

Murnau in America: Chronicle of Lost Films (4 Devils, City Girl) / Janet Bergstrom 303

The American Origins of Film Noir: Realism in Urban Art and The Naked City / Sumiko Higashi 353

Bibliography 381

Contributors 397

Index 401

Über Autor(innen)

Jon Lewis is a professor in the English department at Oregon State University. His books include Hollywood v. Hard-Core: How the Struggle over Censorship Saved the Modern Film Industry as well as Whom God Wishes to Destroy: Francis Ford Coppola and the New Hollywood and The New American Cinema, both also published by Duke University Press.Eric Smoodin is a professor of American studies and director of film studies at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Regarding Frank Capra: Audience, Celebrity, and American Film Studies, 1930–1960, also published by Duke University Press, and Animating Culture: Hollywood Cartoons from the Sound Era.