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Seduced by Mrs. Robinson : how The Graduate became the touchstone of a generation
\"An exploration of The Graduate's influence on filmmaking and how the movie both reflected and changed a generation's views of sex, work, and marriage\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Orienting Hollywood
A new understanding of the culturally rich and historic
relationship between Hollywood and Bollywood. With
American cinema facing intense technological and financial
challenges both at home and abroad, and with Indian media looking
to globalize, there have been numerous high-profile institutional
connections between Hollywood and Bombay cinema in the past few
years. Many accounts have proclaimed India's transformation in a
relatively short period from a Hollywood outpost to a frontier of
opportunity. Orienting Hollywood moves beyond the conventional
popular wisdom that Hollywood and Bombay cinema have only recently
become intertwined because of economic priorities, instead
uncovering a longer history of exchange. Through archival research,
interviews, industry sources, policy documents, and cultural
criticism, Nitin Govil not only documents encounters between
Hollywood and India but also shows how connections were imagined
over a century of screen exchange. Employing a comparative
framework, Govil details the history of influence, traces the
nature of interoperability, and textures the contact between
Hollywood and Bombay cinema by exploring both the reality and
imagination of encounter.
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Cinema, transnationalism, and colonial India : entertaining the Raj
\"Through the lens of cinema, this book explores the ways in which the United States, Britain and India impacted each other politically, culturally and ideologically. It argues that American films of the 1920s posited alternative notions of whiteness and the West to that of Britain, which stood for democracy and social mobility even at a time of virulent racism.The book examines the impact that the American cinema has on Indian filmmakers of the period, who were integrating its conventions with indigenous artistic traditions to articulate an Indian modernity. It considers the way American films in the 1920s presented an orientalist fantasy of Asia, which occluded the harsh realities of anti-Asian sentiment and legislation in the period as well as the exciting engagement of anti-imperial activists who sought to use the United States as the base of a transnational network. The book goes on to analyse the American 'empire films' of the 1930s, which adapted British narratives of empire to represent the United States as a new global paradigm.Presenting close readings of films, literature and art from the era, the book engages cinema studies with theories of post-colonialism and transnationalism, and provides a novel approach to the study of Indian cinema\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Cinema, Transnationalism, and Colonial India
Through the lens of cinema, this book explores the ways in which the United States, Britain and India impacted each other politically, culturally and ideologically. It argues that American films of the 1920s posited alternative notions of whiteness and the West to that of Britain, which stood for democracy and social mobility even at a time of virulent racism.
The book examines the impact that the American cinema has on Indian filmmakers of the period, who were integrating its conventions with indigenous artistic traditions to articulate an Indian modernity. It considers the way American films in the 1920s presented an orientalist fantasy of Asia, which occluded the harsh realities of anti-Asian sentiment and legislation in the period as well as the exciting engagement of anti-imperial activists who sought to use the United States as the base of a transnational network. The book goes on to analyse the American 'empire films' of the 1930s, which adapted British narratives of empire to represent the United States as a new global paradigm.
Presenting close readings of films, literature and art from the era, the book engages cinema studies with theories of post-colonialism and transnationalism, and provides a novel approach to the study of Indian cinema.
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Global Mexican cinema : its golden age : 'el cine mexicano se impone'
The golden age of Mexican cinema, which spanned the 1930s through to the 1950s, saw Mexico's film industry become one of the most productive in the world, exercising a decisive influence on national culture and identity. In the first major study of the global reception and impact of Mexican Golden Age cinema, this book captures the key aspects of its international success, from its role in forming a nostalgic cultural landscape for Mexican emigrants working in the United States, to its economic and cultural influence on Latin America, Spain and Yugoslavia. Challenging existing perceptions, the authors reveal how its film industry helped establish Mexico as a long standing centre of cultural influence for the Spanish-speaking world and beyond.
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Making The Best Years of Our Lives
Released in 1946, The Best Years of Our Lives became an
immediate success. Life magazine called it \"the first big,
good movie of the post-war era\" to tackle the \"veterans problem.\"
Today we call that problem PTSD, but in the initial aftermath of
World War II, the modern language of war trauma did not exist. The
film earned the producer Samuel Goldwyn his only Best Picture
Academy Award. It offered the injured director, William Wyler, a
triumphant postwar return to Hollywood. And for Harold Russell, a
double amputee who costarred with Fredric March and Dana Andrews,
the film provided a surprising second act.
Award-winning author Alison Macor illuminates the film's journey
from script to screen and describes how this authentic motion
picture moved audiences worldwide. General Omar Bradley believed
The Best Years of Our Lives would help \"the American
people to build an even better democracy\" following the war, and
the movie inspired broad reflection on reintegrating the walking
wounded. But the film's nuanced critique of American ideals also
made it a target, and the picture and its creators were swept up in
the anti-Communist witch hunts of the late 1940s. In this
authoritative history, Macor chronicles the making and meaning of a
film that changed America.
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Transnational Australian cinema
To date, there has been little sustained attention given to the historical cinema relations between Australia and Asia. This is a significant omission given Australia’s geo-political position and the place Asia has held in the national imaginary, oscillating between threat and opportunity. Many accounts of Australian cinema begin with the 1970s film revival, placing “Asian-Australian cinema” within a post-revival schema of multicultural or diasporic cinema and ignoring Asian-Australian connections prior to the revival. Transnational Australian Cinema charts a history of Asian-Australian cinema, encompassing the work of diasporic Asian filmmakers, films featuring images of Asia and Asians, films produced by Australians working in Asia’s film industries or addressed at Asian audiences, and Asian films that use Australian resources, including locations and personnel. Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach, the book considers diasporic Asian histories, the impact of government immigration and film policies on representation, and the new aesthetic styles and production regimes created by filmmakers who have forged links, both through roots and routes, with Asia. This expanded history of Asian-Australian cinema allows for a renewed discussion of so-called dormant periods in the nation’s film history. In this respect, the mapping of an expanded history of cinema practices contributes to our broader aim to rethink the transnationalism of Australian cinema.
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The architecture of the screen : essays in cinematographic space
With the birth of film came the birth of a revolutionary visual language. This new, unique vocabulary - the cut, the fade, the dissolve, the pan, and the new idea of movement - gave not only artists but also architects a completely new way to think about and describe the visual. 'The architecture of the screen' examines the relationship between the visual language of film and the onscreen perception of space and architectural design, revealing how film's visual vocabulary influenced architecture in the twentieth century and continues to influence it today. Graham Cairns draws on film reviews, architectural plans, and theoretical texts to illustrate the unusual and fascinating relationship between the worlds of filmmaking and architecture.
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Screening Enlightenment
During the six-and-a-half-year occupation of Japan (1945-1952), U.S. film studios-in close coordination with Douglas MacArthur's Supreme Command for the Allied Powers-launched an ambitious campaign to extend their power and influence in a historically rich but challenging film market. In this far-reaching \"enlightenment campaign,\" Hollywood studios disseminated more than six hundred films to theaters, earned significant profits, and showcased the American way of life as a political, social, and cultural model for the war-shattered Japanese population.
InScreening Enlightenment, Hiroshi Kitamura shows how this expansive attempt at cultural globalization helped transform Japan into one of Hollywood's key markets. He also demonstrates the prominent role American cinema played in the \"reeducation\" and \"reorientation\" of the Japanese on behalf of the U.S. government. According to Kitamura, Hollywood achieved widespread results by turning to the support of U.S. government and military authorities, which offered privileged deals to American movies while rigorously controlling Japanese and other cinematic products. The presentation of American ideas and values as an emblem of culture, democracy, and sophistication also allowed the U.S. film industry to expand. However, the studios' efforts would not have been nearly as extensive without the Japanese intermediaries and consumers who interestingly served as the program's best publicists.
Drawing on a wide range of sources, from studio memos and official documents of the occupation to publicity materials and Japanese fan magazines, Kitamura shows how many Japanese supported Hollywood and became active agents of Americanization. A truly interdisciplinary book that combines U.S. diplomatic and cultural history, film and media studies, and modern Japanese history,Screening Enlightenmentoffers new insights into the origins of this unique political and cultural transpacific relationship.
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