Document concernant le film "Un drame à Manhattan", 1934
Title | Document concernant le film "Un drame à Manhattan", 1934 PDF eBook |
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Rediscovering French Film
Title | Rediscovering French Film PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Lea Bandy |
Publisher | Bulfinch |
Pages | 230 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
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Pre-Code Hollywood
Title | Pre-Code Hollywood PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Doherty |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 450 |
Release | 1999-08-27 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780231500128 |
Pre-Code Hollywood explores the fascinating period in American motion picture history from 1930 to 1934 when the commandments of the Production Code Administration were violated with impunity in a series of wildly unconventional films—a time when censorship was lax and Hollywood made the most of it. Though more unbridled, salacious, subversive, and just plain bizarre than what came afterwards, the films of the period do indeed have the look of Hollywood cinema—but the moral terrain is so off-kilter that they seem imported from a parallel universe. In a sense, Doherty avers, the films of pre-Code Hollywood are from another universe. They lay bare what Hollywood under the Production Code attempted to cover up and push offscreen: sexual liaisons unsanctified by the laws of God or man, marriage ridiculed and redefined, ethnic lines crossed and racial barriers ignored, economic injustice exposed and political corruption assumed, vice unpunished and virtue unrewarded—in sum, pretty much the raw stuff of American culture, unvarnished and unveiled. No other book has yet sought to interpret the films and film-related meanings of the pre-Code era—what defined the period, why it ended, and what its relationship was to the country as a whole during the darkest years of the Great Depression... and afterward.
The Film Encyclopedia
Title | The Film Encyclopedia PDF eBook |
Author | Ephraim Katz |
Publisher | New York : HarperCollins Publishers |
Pages | 1528 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780062730893 |
Gay and Lesbian Cinema: p. 513-514.
Hollywood Genres: Formulas, Filmmaking, and The Studio System
Title | Hollywood Genres: Formulas, Filmmaking, and The Studio System PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Schatz |
Publisher | McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 1981-02 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
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The central thesis of this book is that a genre approach provides the most effective means for understanding, analyzing and appreciating the Hollywood cinema. Taking into account not only the formal and aesthetic aspects of feature filmmaking, but various other cultural aspects as well, the genre approach treats movie production as a dynamic process of exchange between the film industry and its audience. This process, embodied by the Hollywood studio system, has been sustained primarily through genres, those popular narrative formulas like the Western, musical and gangster film, which have dominated the screen arts throughout this century.
The Encyclopedia of Film
Title | The Encyclopedia of Film PDF eBook |
Author | James Monaco |
Publisher | Perigee Trade |
Pages | 616 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
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An alphabetical reference on the major film figures (stars, producers, directors, writers, et al.), past and present. Each entry provides a substantial career biography and a complete listing of all films the individual has been involved with. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Title | Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971 PDF eBook |
Author | New York Public Library. Research Libraries |
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Pages | 550 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Library catalogs |
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