Looking past the screen : case studies in American film history and method

• Other Authors: Lewis, Jon, 1955- (Editor), Smoodin, Eric Loren, 1955- (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2007
• Subjects: dějiny filmu > Spojené státy americké; filmový průmysl > Spojené státy americké; history of film > United States; film industry > United States; případové studie; case studies
• ISBN: 9780822338215
• Physical Description: x, 413 s. : il. ; 23 cm

Table of Contents:

• The beginnings of American film study / Dana Polan
• The perfect money machine(s) : George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and auteurism in the new Hollywood / Jon Lewis
• Lois Weber and the celebrity of matronly respectability / Shelley Stamp
• Tempting fate : Clara Smith hamon, or The secretary as producer / Mark Lynn Anderson
• The crafting of a political icon : Lola Lola on paper / Andrea Slane
• Going Hollywood sooner or later : Chinese censorship and The bitter tea of General Yen / Eric Smoodin
• Plain brown wrapper : adult films for the home market, 1930-1969 / Eric Schaefer
• Ethnography and exhibition : the child audience, the Hays office, and Saturday matinees / Richard deCordova
• Dish night at the movies : exhibitor promotions and female audiences during the Great Depression / Kathy H. Fuller-Seeley
• "A treatise on decay" : liberal and leftist critics and their queer readings of Depression-era U.S. film / David M. Lugowski
• Murnau in America : chronicle of lost films (4 devils, City girl) / Janet Bergstrom
• The American origins of film noir : realism in urban art and The naked city / Sumiko Higashi