American Cinema/American Culture 5th Edition, (Ebook PDF)

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780073514291
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0073514291
• Author:  John Belton 

American Cinema/American Culture, 5th Edition, looks at the interplay between American cinema and mass culture from the 1890s to 2017. Students are introduced to the cultural history of film focusing on topics and issues rather than on rote learning. This introduction to American Cinema is ideal for introductory courses of American cinema, American film history courses, and introductory film appreciation courses. The text provides a cultural overview of the phenomenon of the American moviegoing experience, engagingly written in a lively and entertaining style by John Belton, a preeminent scholar in the field of film studies.

Table of contents:
PART 1 THE MODE OF PRODUCTION
• CHAPTER 1 THE EMERGENCE OF THE CINEMA AS AN INSTITUTION
• CHAPTER 2 CLASSICAL HOLLYWOOD CINEMA: NARRATION
• CHAPTER 3 CLASSICAL HOLLYWOOD CINEMA: STYLE
• CHAPTER 4 THE STUDIO SYSTEM
• CHAPTER 5 THE STAR SYSTEM

PART 2 GENRE AND THE GENRE SYSTEM
• CHAPTER 6 SILENT FILM MELODRAMA
• CHAPTER 7 THE MUSICAL
• CHAPTER 8 AMERICAN COMEDY
• CHAPTER 9 WAR AND CINEMA
• CHAPTER 10 FILM NOIR: SOMEWHERE IN THE NIGHT
• CHAPTER 11 THE MAKING OF THE WEST
• CHAPTER 12 HORROR AND SCIENCE FICTION

PART 3 A POSTWAR HISTORY
• CHAPTER 13 HOLLYWOOD AND THE COLD WAR
• CHAPTER 14 HOLLYWOOD IN THE AGE OF TELEVISION
• CHAPTER 15 THE 1960S: THE COUNTERCULTURE STRIKES BACK
• CHAPTER 16 THE FILM SCHOOL GENERATION
• CHAPTER 17 INTO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
• CHAPTER 18   DIGITAL CINEMA