American Cinema/American Culture

Ideal for Introduction to American Cinema courses, American Film History courses, and Introductory Film Appreciation courses focused on American Film, this text offers a cultural examination of the American movie-making industry, with particular attention paid to the economic and aesthetic institution of Hollywood.

Introduction

PART ONE: THE MODE OF PRODUCTION

1. The Emergence of the Cinema as an Institution

2. Classical Hollywood Cinema: Narration

3. Classical Hollywood Cinema: Style

4. The Studio System

5. The Star System

PART TWO: GENRE AND THE GENRE SYSTEM

6. Silent Film Melodrama

7. The Musical

8. American Comedy

9. War and Cinema

10. Film Noir: Somewhere in the Night

11. The Making of the West

PART THREE: A POST-WAR HISTORY

12. Hollywood and the Cold War

13. Hollywood in the Age of Television

14. The 1960's: The Counterculture Strikes Back

15. The Film School Generation

16. Into the Twenty-First Century

Glossary of Terms

Index

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