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American Film and Society Since 1945 by Leonard Quart & Albert Auster
Surveys a number of the "public classics" - fictional films whose critical acclaim, awards of box office appeal indicate a connection with public consciousness - that were produced in the USA since 1945. The authors analyze the cultural and social meanings evoked by these films.Auster and Quart survey many of the "public classics" - fictional films whose critical acclaim, awards, or box office appeal indicate a connection with public consciousness - that were produced in the United States since 1945. They analyze the cultural and social meanings evoked by these films, and how the formal elements of these works helped shape cinematic art. Their underlying premise is that if Hollywood is the dream factory, then the post-World War II film helps to unravel some of the central concerns and values of American society from 1945 to the present - from "The Best Years of Our Lives" to "Do the Right Thing". This revised, expanded, and updated edition emphasizes the films of the 1980s, discussing ideologically antithetical Vietnam films like "Platoon" and "Rambo", feminist backlash films like "Fatal Attraction", rural sagas like "Places in the Heart" and "Country", teen films like "Risky Business" and "Back to the Future", and films dealing with the civil rights struggle, black history and black contemporary life such as "Mississippi Burning", "Glory" and "Do the Right Thing". It also fully explores the contested and contradictory meanings conveyed by many American films such as Sylvester Stallone's "Rambo", which is seen as both a patriotic, pro-war cartoon and a populist attack against government experts and bureaucracy. |
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| Author(s) : Leonard Quart & Albert Auster | Format : Hardback Book |
| ISBN-10 : 0275933261 | ISBN-13 : 9780275933265 |
| RRP : £52.95 | Best available price : £ / $ |
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Product Details:
Country Publication : United States
Publication Date : 01/07/1991
Publisher : Greenwood Press
Page Length : 216mm
Page Size : 230mm