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A century in uniform: Military women in American films by Stacy Fowler and

Deborah A. Deacon
December 12th, 2019 | ISBN: 1476677131 | 229 pages | PDF | 46 MB
From silents of the early American motion picture era through 21st century
films, this book offers a decade-by-decade examination of portrayals of women in
the military. The full range of genres is explored, along with films created by
today's military women about their experiences.
Laws regarding women in the service are analyzed, along with discussion of
the challenges they have faced in the push for full participation and of the changing
societal attitudes through the years.
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A new pot of gold: Hollywood under the Electronic Rainbow, 1980-1989
(Volume 10) (History of the American cinema) by Stephen Prince
March 15th, 2002 | 1st edition | 585 pages | ISBN: 0520232666 | DJVU | 6 MB
Facing an economic crisis in the 1980s, the Hollywood industry moved

boldly to control the ancillary markets of videotape, video disk, pay-cable and pay-
per-view and the major studios found themselves targeted for acquisition by global
media and communications companies. This volume examines the decade's
transformation that took Hollywood from the production of theatrical film to media
software.Some of the films discussed in this volume include: Platoon (1986), Do
the right thing (1989), Blue velvet (1986), Diner (1982), E.T. (1982), Batman
(1989), Body heat (1981).
American cinema 1890-1909: Themes and variations by Andre Gaudreault
February 28th, 2009 | ISBN: 0813544424, 0813544432 | 289 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The essays in American cinema 1890-1909 explore and define how the
making of motion pictures flowered into an industry that would finally become the
central entertainment institution of the world. Beginning with all the early types of
pictures that moved, this volume tells the story of the invention and consolidation
of the various processes that gave rise to what we now call 'cinema.'
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American cinema of the 1930s: Themes and variations by Ina Rae Hark
June 15th, 2007 | ISBN: 081354081X, 0813540828 | 292 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Probably no decade saw as many changes in the Hollywood film industry

and its product as the 1930s did. At the beginning of the decade, the industry was
still struggling with the transition to talking pictures.
American cinema of the 1960s: Themes and variations by Barry Keith Grant
February 15th, 2008 | ISBN: 0813542189, 0813542197 | 297 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The profound cultural and political changes of the 1960s brought the United
States closer to social revolution than at any other time in the twentieth century.
The country fragmented as various challenges to state power were met with
increasing and violent resistance.
American cinema of the 1970s: Themes and variations by Lester D. Friedman

April 1st, 2007 | ISBN: 0813540232, 0813540224 | 304 pages | PDF | 2 MB
A smug glance at the seventies – the so-called "Me Decade" – unveils a

kaleidoscope of big hair, blaring music and broken politics -- all easy targets for
satire, cynicism and ultimately even nostalgia. American cinema of the 1970s,
however, looks beyond the strobe lights to reveal how profoundly the seventies
have influenced American life and how the films of that decade represent a peak
moment in cinema history.
American cinema of the 1980s: Themes and variations (Screen Decades)
by Stephen Prince
September 1st, 2007 | 276 pages | ISBN: 081354033X | PDF | 3 MB
During the 1980s, American cinema underwent enormous transformations.

Blockbusters like Raiders of the lost ark (1981), E.T. (1982) and The empire
strikes back / Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire strikes back (1980) grabbed
huge revenues for the studios. At the same time, the growth of home video led to
new and creative opportunities for independent film production, resulting in many
of the decade's best films. Both large- and small-scale filmmakers responded to the
social, political and cultural conditions of the time. The two-term presidency of
Ronald Reagan spawned a new Cold War with the Soviet Union, which Hollywood
film both embraced and critiqued. Also during this time, Hollywood launched a
long-awaited cycle of films about the Vietnam War, exploring its impact both at
home and abroad. But science fiction remained the era's most popular genre,
ranging from upbeat fantasies to dark, dystopic visions. Bringing together original
essays by ten respected scholars in the field, American cinema of the 1980s
examines the films that marked the decade, including Ordinary people (1980),
Body heat (1981), Blade runner (1982), Zelig (1983), Platoon (1986), Top Gun
(1986), Aliens (1986), Blue velvet (1986), RoboCop (1987), Fatal attraction
(1987), Die hard (1988), Batman (1989) and Sex, lies & videotape (1989).
American cinema of the 2000s: Themes and variations (Screen Decades:
American Culture/American Cinema) by Professor Timothy Corrigan, Professor
Timothy Corrigan, Anna Everett, Professor Sharon Willis, Professor Thomas
Schatz, Linda Williams, Professor Dina Smith, Professor Bob Rehak, Professor
Nora Alter, Professor Nigel Morris, Professor Karen Beckman,
April 15th, 2012 | 289 pages | ISBN: 0813552818 | PDF | 4 MB
The decade from 2000 to 2009 is framed, at one end, by the traumatic
catastrophe of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and, at the other, by the
election of the first African American president of the United States. In between,
the United States and the world witnessed the rapid expansion of new media and
the Internet, such natural disasters as Hurricane Katrina, political uprisings around
the world and a massive meltdown of world economies.Amid these crises and
revolutions, American films responded in multiple ways, sometimes directly
reflecting these turbulent times and sometimes indirectly couching history in
traditional genres and stories. In American cinema of the 2000s, essays from ten
top film scholars examine such popular series as the groundbreaking Matrix films
and the gripping adventures of former CIA covert operative Jason Bourne; new,
offbeat films like Juno (2007); and the resurgence of documentaries like Michael
Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 (2018). Each essay demonstrates the complex ways in
which American culture and American cinema are bound together in subtle and
challenging ways.
André Bazin, the critic as thinker: American cinema from early Chaplin to
the late 1950s by R. J. Cardullo
2016 | ISBN: 9463008764, 9463008772, 9789463008761, 9789463008778 | 358
Pages | PDF | 31.67 MB
André Bazin (1918 – 1958) is credited with almost single-handedly

establishing the study of film as an accepted intellectual pursuit, as well as with
being the spiritual father of the French New Wave. Among those who came under
his tutelage were four who would go on to become the most renowned directors of
the postwar French cinema: François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette
and Claude Chabrol.
Bazin can also be considered the principal instigator of the equally
influential auteur theory: the idea that, since film is an art form, the director of a
movie must be perceived as the chief creator of its unique cinematic style.
André Bazin, the critic as thinker: American cinema from early Chaplin
to the late 1950s contains, for the first time in English in one volume, much if not
all of Bazin's writings on American cinema: on directors such as Orson Welles,
Charles Chaplin, Preston Sturges, Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hawks, John Huston,
Nicholas Ray, Erich von Stroheim and Elia Kazan; and on films such as High noon
(1952), Citizen Kane (1941), Rear window (1954), Limelight (1952), Scarface
(1932), Niagara (1953), The red badge of courage (1951), Greed (1924) and
Sullivan's travels (1941).
André Bazin, the critic as thinker: American cinema from early Chaplin
to the late 1950s also features a sizable scholarly apparatus, including a contextual
introduction to Bazin's life and work, a complete bibliography of Bazin's writings
on American cinema and credits of the films discussed.
This volume thus represents a major contribution to the still growing
academic discipline of cinema studies, as well as a testament to the continuing
influence of one of the world's pre-eminent critical thinkers.

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A century in uniform: Military women in American films by Stacy Fowler and

Facing an economic crisis in the 1980s, the Hollywood industry moved

Probably no decade saw as many changes in the Hollywood film industry

American cinema of the 1970s: Themes and variations by Lester D. Friedman

A smug glance at the seventies – the so-called "Me Decade" – unveils a

During the 1980s, American cinema underwent enormous transformations.

André Bazin (1918 – 1958) is credited with almost single-handedly

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