Ideal for Introduction to American Cinema courses, American Film
History courses, and Introductory Film Appreciation courses focused on American Film, this
text offers a cultural examination of the American movie-making industry, with particular
attention paid to the economic and aesthetic institution of Hollywood.
Table of Contents
Introduction
PART ONE: THE MODE OF PRODUCTION
1. The Emergence of the Cinema as an Institution
2. Classical Hollywood Cinema: Narration
3. Classical Hollywood Cinema: Style
4. The Studio System
5. The Star System
PART TWO: GENRE AND THE GENRE SYSTEM
6. Silent Film Melodrama
7. The Musical
8. American Comedy
9. War and Cinema
10. Film Noir: Somewhere in the Night
11. The Making of the West
12. Horror and Science Fiction
PART THREE: A POST-WAR HISTORY
13. Hollywood and the Cold War
14. Hollywood in the Age of Television
15. The 1960's: The Counterculture Strikes Back
16. The Film School Generation
17. Into the Twenty-First Century
Glossary of Terms
Index
448 pages, Paperback