The Routledge companion to American film history / edited by Pamela Robertson Wojcik and Paula J. Massood.
| Other author | Wojcik, Pamela Robertson, 1964- |
| Other author | Massood, Paula J., 1965- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Routledge, 2025. |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Series | Routledge media and cultural studies companions |
| Contents | Introduction : American film history as a multiplicity / Pamela Robertson Wojcik and Paula J. Massood -- Cinema's playful objects : on toys and the movies / Meredith Bak -- Finding its voice? Sound and the (re)-writing of film history / Dimitrios Latsis -- Doing Disney history despite Disney / Peter C. Kunze -- Doing bad film history : lessons on archive and method from John Waters / Hollis Griffin -- Heroes, villains, or collaborators : the place of Hollywood unions in American film industry history / Kate Fortmueller -- 'Students will be participants' : designing working-class film education at the Harry Alan Potamkin Film School / McKayla Sluga -- The reticent close-up : editing and understatement in the films of Barbara McLean / Patrick Keating -- Teaching Hollywood to speak : voice culture and the transition to sound / Kristen Hatch -- Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe, and method acting : between art and commerce / Amanda Konkle -- New pathways toward a new Hollywood : love with the proper stranger / Cynthia Lucia -- Written refusals : Oscar Micheaux's confrontations with the New York State Motion Picture Commission / Alyssa Lopez -- Hollywood color : race, aesthetics, technology / Kirsty Sinclair Dootson and Xin Peng -- 'Basic dark face' : writing the history of makeup in post-civil rights Hollywood / Desir©♭e J. Garcia -- Movie stars make news : fan magazines, print culture, and American film history of the studio era / Mary R. Desjardins -- 'I want big things:' beauty merchandising and noir's 'femme fans' / Shelley Stamp -- Any given sunday at la Cadena Metropolitana : Spanish-language theaters in Los Angeles and the influence of film exhibitors, 1963-2001 / Ross Melnick -- Early motion pictures' cultures of print / Sarah Gleeson-White -- Histories of exhibition and spectatorship : loss and imagination / Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece -- The stuff that dreams are made of : re-materializing spectatorship studies / Caetlin BensonAllott -- Speculating a speculative history of early Chinese American film culture / Yiman Wang -- Neither invasion nor Americanization : a short history of the French film industry in Fort Lee / Clara Auclair -- When Hollywood came to Greece : 20th Century-Fox and the challenges of turning a small country into a runaway film production destination in the 1950s / Yannis Tzioumakis -- The quintessential seventies picture show : Voyage of the damned (1976) as heritage film between art cinema and disaster flick / Roy Grundmann -- Parabola : transhistorical connections between experimental film and music videos / Amy Skjerseth -- From home movie makers to content creators : forging a genealogy of self-made media / Lauren Berliner -- Webs of stories : 21st century Native American film and television / Amy Corbin -- 'Drawn to life' : intermedial promotion and the monetization of film history in Disney and Cirque du Soleil / Kirsten Moana Thompson -- 'Once upon a time...' : movies about Hollywood as film history / Steven Cohan -- A Netflix original : history, Hollywood and commemoration in the streaming era / Jonathan Stubbs -- Acts of recovery : excavating youth through the detritus of film history / Pamela Robertson Wojcik -- In the wake of archival rediscovery : the afterlives of something good-Negro kiss (1898) / Allyson Nadia Field -- Rediscovered again : the nonlinear path of Alice Guy Blach©♭ into US film history / Aurore Spiers -- Casablanca : rethinking film history through the old classics / Barbara Klinger -- 'There's no more to say?' : The lives and afterlives of Shirley Clarke's portrait of Jason / Paula J. Massood. |
| Abstract | "Presenting new and diverse scholarship, this collection brings together original essays that explore American film history from a fresh perspective. Comprising an introduction and 34 chapters written by leading scholars from around the globe, and edited by Pamela Robertson Wojcik and Paula J. Massood, this collection offers discussions of the American film industry from previously unexplored vantage points. Rather than follow a chronological format, as with most film histories, this Companion offers a multiplicity of approaches to historiography and is arranged according to often underdeveloped or overlooked areas in American film, including topics such as alternate archives, hidden labor, histories of style, racialized technologies, cinema's material cultures, spectators and fans, transnational film production, intermedial histories, history in and about films, and the historical afterlives of cinema. An exciting collection for serious film studies students and scholars interested in new perspectives and fresh approaches to thinking about and doing American film history"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Routledge companion to American film history New York : Routledge, 2025 9781032610283 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2024040556 |
| ISBN | 9781040303993 (epub) |
| ISBN | 9781003461647 (ebook) |
| ISBN | (hardback) |
| ISBN | (paperback) |
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