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Hollywood's censor : Joseph I. Breen & the Production Code Administration
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Teenagers and Teenpics
Teenagers and Teenpics tells the story of two signature developments in the 1950s: the decline of the classical Hollywood cinema and the emergence of that strange new creature, the American teenager.
eBook
The Best Specimen of a Tyrant
In 1847, young Dr. Abraham Van Norstrand left Vermont to seek his fortune in the West, but in Wisconsin his business ventures failed, and a medical practice among hard-up settlers added little to his pocketbook. During the Civil War he organized and ran one of the army's biggest hospitals but resigned when dark rumors surfaced about him. Back home, he accepted with mixed feelings the one prestigious position available to him: superintendent of the state's first hospital for the insane.
Van Norstrand was a newcomer to the so-called \"Hospital Movement,\" perhaps the boldest public policy innovation of its time, one whose leaders believed that they could achieve what had long been regarded as impossible, to cure the insane. He was a driven man with scant sympathy for those he considered misfits or malingerers. Even so, early observers were impressed with his energetic, take-charge manner at the hospital. Here at last was a man who stood firm where his predecessors had weakened and foundered. But others began to detect a different side to this tireless ruler and adroit politician. It was said that he assaulted patients and served them tainted food purchased with state money from his own grocery store. Was he exploiting the weak for personal gain or making the best of a thankless situation? Out of this fog of suspicion emerged a moral crusader and-to all appearances-pristine do-gooder named Samuel Hastings, a man whose righteous fury, once aroused, proved equal to Van Norstrand's own.
The story of Abraham Van Norstrand's rise and fall is also the story of the clash between the great expectations and hard choices that have bedeviled public mental hospitals from the beginning.
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Art Spiegelman's Maus: Graphic art and the holocaust
Doherty examines the importance of Art Spiegelman's two volume cartoon biography, \"Maus Part I: A Survivor's Tale : My Father Bleeds History\" and \"Maus Part II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began.\" Spiegelman won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for this biography of his father, Vladek Spiegelman.
Journal Article
TEENAGERS AND TEENPICS, 1955-1960: THE JUVENILIZATION OF AMERICAN MOVIES
Prior to the mid-50s, movies in America were the mass medium of choice for a heterogeneous, multi-generational audience. The rise of television and the collapse of the Hollywood studio system destroyed that universality. Economic desperation and changing demographics forced moviemakers to narrow their focus and attract the one group with the requisite income, leisure, and garrulousness to support a theatrical business: teenagers. Hollywood's courtship of the teenage audience began in earnest in 1955; by 1960, the romance was in full bloom. This shift in marketing strategy and production initiated the progressive juvenilization of film content and the film audience that is, today, the operative reality of the American motion picture business. The juvenilization of American movies is best revealed in the genesis and development of the 50s \"teenpic,\" an exploitation picture typically having three elements: (1) controversial, bizarre, or timely subject matter amenable to wild promotion; (2) a substandard budget; and (3) a teenage audience. Depicting contemporary teenage entertainments and activities such as rock 'n' roll music, juvenile delinquency, horror, and \"clean teen\" romance, the era's teenpics reflect their cultural-historical context with a particular clarity. Their box office success testified powerfully to the ascendancy of the teenage moviegoer. The teenpic, a motion picture targeted at teens even to the exclusion of their elders, quickly became the most marketable of movie commodities. By 1960, \"mainstream\" Hollywood production and marketing, once the domain of \"family entertainment,\" was gauged largely to teenage tastes. Commercial moviemakers, armed for exploitation with a mounting accumulation of experience and research material, made concerted assaults on the teen marketplace. Teenagers regularly succumbed to Hollywood's promotional schemes and teen-oriented movies, but the exploitation, though routine, was never systematic. Set apart by experience, style, and sensibility, American teenagers have maintained a cultural and generational autonomy that makes them an elusive mark for Hollywood exploitation.
Dissertation
Reviews: Film: \More Treasures from American Film Archives, 1894-1931\
The three-DVD, 50-film set \"More Treasures from American Film Archives, 1894-1931,\" is reviewed (produced by the National Film Preservation Foundation; distributed by Image Entertainment, 2004).
Book Review