Looking Past the Screen

Informationen zum Autor Jon Lewis and Eric Smoodin, eds. Klappentext A collection of essays illustrating new methods and theories of film history. Zusammenfassung Presenting a model of film studies in which films themselves are only one source of information among many! this volume aims to bring together film histories that draw on primary sources including collections of personal papers! popular and trade journalism! fan magazines! studio publications! and industry records. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction: The History of Film History / Eric Smoodin 1 I. Institutional Histories 35 The Beginning of American Film Study / Dana Polan 37 The Perfect Money Machine(s): George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and Auteurism in the New Hollywood / Jon Lewis 61 II. Star Studies 87 Lois Weber and the Celebrity of Matronly Respectability / Shelley Stamp 89 Tempting Fate: Clara Smith Hamon, or, The Secretary as Producer / Mark Lynn Anderson 117 The Crafting of a Political Icon: Lola Lola on Paper / Andrea Slane 151 III. Regulation 167 Going Hollywood Sooner or Later: Chinese Censorship and The Bitter Tea of General Yen / Eric Smoodin 169 Plain Brown Wrapper: Adult Films for the Home Market, 1930-1969 / Eric Schaefer 201 IV. Reception 227 Ethnography and Exhibition: The Child Audience, The Hays Office, and Saturday Matinees / Richard deCordova 229 Dish Night at the Movies: Exhibitor Promotions and Female Audiences during the Great Depression / Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley 246 A Treatise on Decay: Liberal and Leftist Critics and Their Queer Readings of Depression-Era U.S. Film / David M. Lugowski 276 V. Production 301 Murnau in America: Chronicle of Lost Films (4 Devils, City Girl) / Janet Bergstrom 303 The American Origins of Film Noir: Realism in Urban Art and The Naked City / Sumiko Higashi 353 Bibliography 381 Contributors 397 Index 401...

Autorentext
Jon Lewis and Eric Smoodin, eds.

Klappentext
A collection of essays illustrating new methods and theories of film history.


Zusammenfassung
Presenting a model of film studies in which films themselves are only one source of information among many, this volume aims to bring together film histories that draw on primary sources including collections of personal papers, popular and trade journalism, fan magazines, studio publications, and industry records.

Inhalt
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: The History of Film History / Eric Smoodin 1
I. Institutional Histories 35
The Beginning of American Film Study / Dana Polan 37
The Perfect Money Machine(s): George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and Auteurism in the New Hollywood / Jon Lewis 61
II. Star Studies 87
Lois Weber and the Celebrity of Matronly Respectability / Shelley Stamp 89
Tempting Fate: Clara Smith Hamon, or, The Secretary as Producer / Mark Lynn Anderson 117
The Crafting of a Political Icon: Lola Lola on Paper / Andrea Slane 151
III. Regulation 167
Going Hollywood Sooner or Later: Chinese Censorship and The Bitter Tea of General Yen / Eric Smoodin 169
Plain Brown Wrapper: Adult Films for the Home Market, 1930-1969 / Eric Schaefer 201
IV. Reception 227
Ethnography and Exhibition: The Child Audience, The Hays Office, and Saturday Matinees / Richard deCordova 229
Dish Night at the Movies: Exhibitor Promotions and Female Audiences during the Great Depression / Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley 246
“A Treatise on Decay”: Liberal and Leftist Critics and Their Queer Readings of Depression-Era U.S. Film / David M. Lugowski 276
V. Production 301
Murnau in America: Chronicle of Lost Films (4 Devils, City Girl) / Janet Bergstrom 303
The American Origins of Film Noir: Realism in Urban Art and The Naked City / Sumiko Higashi 353
Bibliography 381
Contributors 397
Index 401

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