A Certain Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema, 1930-1980 (eBook)

Robert B. Ray (Autor)

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2020
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21616-4 (ISBN)

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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, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Godfather, and Taxi Driver. Like the heroes of these movies, American filmmaking has avoided commitment, in both plot and technique. Instead of choosing left or right, avant-garde or tradition, American cinema tries to have it both ways.Although Hollywood's commercial success has led the world audience to equate the American cinema with film itself, Hollywood filmmaking is a particular strategy designed to respond to specific historical situations. As an art restricted in theoretical scope but rich in individual variations, the American cinema poses the most interesting question of popular culture: Do dissident forms have any chance of remaining free of a mass medium seeking to co-opt them?

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.8.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: A Gunfight • Air Force • Althusser, Louis • American Exceptionalism • American Literature • american movie • Anachronism • Andy Hardy • art film • Arthur Penn • Audience • Bad Day at Black Rock • Beatty, Warren • Bedford Falls (It's a Wonderful Life) • Billy Jack • Blackboard Jungle • blurring of oppositions • Bonnie and Clyde • Box office • Cahiers du Cinéma • Casablanca • Cat Ballou • Cinema of the United States • Citizen Kane • Classical Hollywood Cinema • classic hollywood • Close-up • continuity conventions • Cool Hand Luke • Counterculture • Cult Film • dichotomies • dichotomy • Displacement • distrust • doolittle raid • Easy Rider • Establishing shot • eyeline match • Film • film criticism • film industry • filmmaking • Film noir • Film theory • Ford, John • formal paradigm • frank capra • French New Wave • frontier thesis • Gene Kelly • Godard, Jean-Luc • Graduate, The • Gunfighter • Hardy, Andy • High noon • Howard Hawks • Huckleberry Finn • Humphrey Bogart • Ideology • ILSA • Individualism • intent versus effect • Intertextuality • isolationism • italian neorealism • It Happened One Night • Jean-Luc Godard • Johnny Guitar • King and I, The • Lee Marvin • Lighting • Little Big Man • Maltese Falcon, The • Marlon Brando • Meet me in St. Louis • Melodrama • Michael Curtiz • mise-en-scène • Misfits (TV series) • Musical Theatre • Mutiny on the Bounty • my darling clementine • mythology (myth) • narrative • New Wave • Only Angels Have Wings • On the Eve • On the Waterfront • optimism • Orson Welles • Parody • Pauline Kael • pessimism • popular culture • Pretext • Rebel without a Cause • Reconciliation • reluctant hero • Ride the High Country • Roland Barthes • screenwriter • Screwball comedy film • Self-Sufficiency • Shadow of a Doubt • sound film • Struggle (TV series) • Suggestion • Sunset Boulevard (musical) • Taxi Driver • Television • The Auteur Theory • The Far Country • The Lady from Shanghai • The Man who shot Liberty Valance • The Other Hand • The Philadelphia Story (play) • The Wrong Man • This Country • touch of evil • Voice-Over • War Film • William Holden • World War II • Writing • Young Mr. Lincoln
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21616-9 / 0691216169
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21616-4 / 9780691216164