How does a historically based film like Selma that depicts racially charged events in America half a century ago serve to evoke political and social currents in modern U.S. culture? From Steven Spielberg's Lincoln to Clint Eastwood's American Sniper, this fifth edition of this classic film study text adds even more recent films and examines how these movies depict and represent the feelings and values of American society. One of the few authoritative books about American film and society, American Film and Society since 1945 combines accessible, fun-to-read text with a detailed, insightful, and scholarly political and social analysis that thoroughly explores the relationship of American film to society and provides essential historical context. The historical overview provides a "capsule analysis" of both American and Hollywood history for the most recent decade as well as past eras, in which topics like American realism; Vietnam, counterculture revolutions, and 1960s films; and Hollywood depictions of big business like Wall Street are covered. Readers will better understand the explicit and hidden meanings of films and appreciate the effects of the passion and personal engagement that viewers experience with films. This new edition prominently features a new chapter on American and Hollywood history from 2010 to 2017, giving readers an expanded examination of a breadth of culturally and socially important modern films that serves student research or pleasure reading. The coauthors have also included additional analysis of classic films such as To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) and A Face in the Crowd (1957). Analyzes major political and social currents during the decade and examines how Hollywood film dealt with these events and developmentsProvides a political overview of the decade in film since the last edition of Praeger's American Film and Society Since 1945Presents entries organized chronologically, by decades from 1945 to the present, making it easy for readers to quickly find information on films that interest them
✔ Author(s): Leonard Quart,Albert Auster
✔ Title: American Film and Society since 1945
✔ Rating : 4.2 out of 5 base on (48 reviews)
✔ ISBN-10: 1440859450
✔ ISBN-13: 9781440859458
✔ Language: English
✔ Format ebook: PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Audio, HTML and MOBI
✔ Device compatibles: Android, iOS, PC and Amazon Kindle
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