A Certain Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema, 1930-1980 / / Robert B. Ray.
Robert B. Ray examines the ideology of the most enduringly popular cinema in the world--the Hollywood movie. Aided by 364 frame enlargements, he describes the development of that historically overdetermined form, giving close readings of five typical instances: Casablanca, It's a Wonderful Life...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©1985 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART ONE. CLASSIC HOLLYWOOD (1930-1945)
- 1. A Certain Tendency of the American Cinema: Classic Hollywood's Formal and Thematic Paradigms
- 2. Real and Disguised Westerns: Classic Hollywood's Variations of Its Thematic Paradigm
- 3. The Culmination of Classic Hollywood: Casablanca
- 4. Classic Hollywood's Holding Pattern: The Combat Films of World War II
- PART TWO. THE POSTWAR PERIOD (1946-1966)
- 5. The Dissolution of the Homogeneous Audience and Hollywood's Response: Cult Films, Problem Pictures, and Inflation
- 6. The Discrepancy between Intent and Effect: Film Noir, Youth Rebellion Pictures, Musicals, and Westerns
- 7. Ifs a Wonderful Life and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
- PART THREE. THE CONTEMPORARY PERIOD (1967-1980)
- 8. The 1960s: Frontier Metaphors, Developing Self- Consciousness, and New Waves
- 9. The Left and Right Cycles
- 10. The Godfather and Taxi Driver
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index