{"product_id":"hollywoods-america-9781118976494","title":"Hollywoods America","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFully revised, updated, and extended, the fifth edition of \u003ci\u003eHollywood's America\u003c\/i\u003e provides an important compilation of interpretive essays and primary documents that allows students to read films as cultural artifacts within the contexts of actual past events.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eA new edition of this classic textbook, which ties movies into the broader narrative of US and film history\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThis fifth edition contains nine new chapters, with a greater overall emphasis on recent film history, and new primary source documents which are unavailable online\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEntries range from the first experiments with motion pictures all the way to the present day\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWell-organized within a chronological framework with thematic treatments to provide a valuable resource for students of the history of American film\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The Social and Cultural History of American Film 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I The Silent Era 31\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Intolerance and the Rise of the Feature Film 31\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Workers in Early Film 33\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMichael Shull\u003c\/i\u003e, “Silent Agitators: Militant Labor in the Movies, 1909–1919”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Silent Cinema as Historical Mythmaker 42\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEric Niderost\u003c\/i\u003e, “The Birth of a Nation”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The Revolt Against Victorianism 51\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLary May\u003c\/i\u003e, “Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, and the New Personality”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Primary Sources 63\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEdison\u003c\/i\u003e v. American Mutoscope Company 63\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“The Nickel Madness” 65\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMutual Film Corp. v. Industrial Commission of Ohio 68\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFighting a Vicious Film: Protest Against The Birth of a Nation 69\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBoston Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1915 69\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnalysis by Francis Hackett 69\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Seeing Our Boys ‘Over There’” 71\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Hollywood’s Golden Age 75\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Backstage During the Great Depression: 42nd Street, Gold Diggers of 1933, and Footlight Parade 75\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Depression America and its Films 79\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMaury Klein\u003c\/i\u003e, “Laughing Through Tears”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 The Depression’s Human Toll 86\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePeter Roffman and Jim Purdy\u003c\/i\u003e, “Gangsters and Fallen Women”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Depression Allegories 95\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThomas H. Pauly\u003c\/i\u003e, “Gone with the Wind and The Grapes of Wrath as Hollywood Histories of the Great Depression”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 African Americans on the Silver Screen 104\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThomas R. Cripps\u003c\/i\u003e, “The Evolution of Black Film”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Primary Sources 116\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Introduction of Sound 116\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Pictures That Talk” 116\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReview of Don Juan 117\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Silence is Golden” 118\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFilm Censorship 120\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Sins of Hollywood, 1922 120\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“The Don’ts and Be Carefuls” 122\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Motion Picture Production Code of 1930 123\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe State Department on Hollywood in Germany, 1934 133\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe State Department on Hollywood in Latin America, 1934 134\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Hollywood in the World War II Era 137\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Hollywood’s World War II Combat Films 137\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Movies and Great Britain 141\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMichael Todd Bennett\u003c\/i\u003e, “Anglophilia on Film: Creating an Atmosphere for Alliance, 1935–1941”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Blockbuster as Propaganda 156\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRandy Roberts\u003c\/i\u003e, “You Must Remember This: The Case of Hal Wallis’s Casablanca”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 John Wayne and Wartime Hollywood 166\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRandy Roberts\u003c\/i\u003e, “John Wayne Goes to War”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 The Woman’s Film 184\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJeanine Basinger\u003c\/i\u003e, “When Women Wept”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Primary Sources 191\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSumner Welles to \u003ci\u003eFranklin Roosevelt\u003c\/i\u003e, 1941 191\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 1941 Academy Awards: Hollywood and the President 192\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCorrespondence between \u003ci\u003eWalter Wanger and Stephen Early\u003c\/i\u003e 192\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFranklin D. Roosevelt\u003c\/i\u003e to the Academy Awards Dinner 195\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWalter Wanger\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eStephen\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eEarly\u003c\/i\u003e 196\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMadeleine Carroll\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eFranklin Roosevelt\u003c\/i\u003e 196\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eU.S. Senate Subcommittee Hearings on Motion Picture and Radio Propaganda, 1941 196\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExcerpts from The Government Information Manual for the Motion Picture Industry, 1942 200\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBureau of Motion Pictures Report: Casablanca 204\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV Postwar Hollywood 207\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Double Indemnity and Film Noir 207\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 The Red Scare in Hollywood 211\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePeter Roffman\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eand Jim Purdy\u003c\/i\u003e, “HUAC and the End of an Era”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Movies Grow Up 219\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJennifer Holt\u003c\/i\u003e, “Hollywood and Politics Caught in the Cold War Crossfire”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 The Morality of Informing 229\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKenneth R. Hey\u003c\/i\u003e, “Ambivalence and On the Waterfront”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Science Fiction as Social Commentary 240\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eStuart Samuels\u003c\/i\u003e, “The Age of Conspiracy and Conformity: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Primary Sources 250\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUnited States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. (1947) 250\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHearings Regarding the Communist Infiltration of the Motion Picture Industry 251\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eU.S. House of Representatives Committee on Un-American Activities, 1947 251\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eU.S. House of Representatives Committee on Un-American Activities, 1951 251\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Waldorf Statement, 1947 254\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V Hollywood in an Age of Turmoil 257\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: \u003ci\u003eBonnie and Clyde\u003c\/i\u003e 257\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 The Dark Side of the 1960s 259\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCharles Bane\u003c\/i\u003e, “Worrying about the Bomb: Stanley Kubrick and the Nuclear War Film”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Films of the Late 1960s and Early 1970s 270\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMichael Ryan and Douglas Kelner\u003c\/i\u003e, “From Counterculture to Counterrevolution, 1967–1971”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Film Capital and National Capital 279\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKathryn Cramer Brownell\u003c\/i\u003e, “‘Politics is Show Business’: Hollywood and the New Politics”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Reaffirming Traditional Values 288\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDaniel J. Leab\u003c\/i\u003e, “The Blue Collar Ethnic in Bicentennial America: Rocky”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Presenting African Americans on Film 297\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAram Goudsouzian\u003c\/i\u003e, “The Rise and Fall of Sidney Poitier”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 Coming to Terms with the Vietnam War 306\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRandy Roberts and David Welky\u003c\/i\u003e, “A Sacred Mission: Oliver Stone and Vietnam”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 Primary Sources 324\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRaymond Caldiero\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eHerbert L. Porter\u003c\/i\u003e, 1972\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VI Hollywood in the Post-studio Era 329\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: A Changing Hollywood 329\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 Feminism and Recent American Film 331\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAspasia Kotsopoulos\u003c\/i\u003e, “Gendering Expectations: Genre and Allegory in Readings of Thelma and Louise”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 The Screen and the Cross 349\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDonna Bowman\u003c\/i\u003e, “Christianity, Hollywood, and the Culture Wars”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 Social Revolution on Screen 357\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThomas Piontek\u003c\/i\u003e, “Tears for Queers: Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain, Hollywood, and American Attitudes toward Homosexuality”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30 Encountering Distant Lands 369\u003cbr\u003e Mark Graham, “The New Great Game: Rambo III, The Beast, and \u003ci\u003eCharlie Wilson’s \u003c\/i\u003eWar”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31 Superheroes for the Twenty-First Century 384\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNoel Murray\u003c\/i\u003e, “Assembling Joss Whedon’s Avengers: The Modern Business of Blockbusters”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32 Movies and the Construction of Historical Memory 392\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSteven Mintz\u003c\/i\u003e, “Movies, History, and the Disneyfication of the Past: The Case of Pocahontas”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography of Recent Books in American Film History 399\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 425\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406960894295,"sku":"9781118976494","price":38.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781118976494.jpg?v=1730497701","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/hollywoods-america-9781118976494","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}