American Film and Society since 1945 / Edition 5

by Leonard Quart, Albert Auster

Overview

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).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781440859458
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	04/19/2018
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	376
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.78(d)
Age Range:	12 - 18 Years

About the Author

Leonard Quart is professor emeritus of cinema at City University of New York (CUNY) and COSI; contributing editor of Cineaste, and columnist for the Berkshire Eagle.

Al Auster is professor in the Communication and Media Studies Department at Fordham University. He is the author or coauthor of five previous books.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Fifth Edition
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
2 The 1940s
3 The 1950s
4 The 1960s
5 The 1970s
6 The 1980s
7 The 1990s
8 2000–2009
9 The 2010s
Selected Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

A decade-by-decade survey of the critically or popularly acclaimed films since the end of World War II, considering their social and culture significance, and the formal elements that have shaped the art. Only five illustrations. The first edition was published in 1984. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

Film studies programs will find this to be an indispensable tome, and public libraries will value the book's significant analyses and perceptions about both American society and its film industry.” —ARBA

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