Classic Hollywood : Lifestyles and Film Styles of American Cinema, 1930-1960 /

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"Studies of "Classic Hollywood" typically treat Hollywood films released from 1930 to 1960 as a single interpretive mass. Veronica Pravadelli complicates this idea. Focusing on dominant tendencies in box office hits and Oscar-recognized classics, she breaks down the so-called classic...

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Main Author: Pravadelli, Veronica, 1964- (Author)
Other Authors: Meadows, Michael Theodore (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Italiano
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Motion pictures > Production and direction.
Motion pictures.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Cinema > Californie > Los Angeles > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Cinema > Production et realisation > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Cinema > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Motion pictures > California > Los Angeles > History > 20th century.
Motion pictures > Production and direction > United States > History > 20th century.
Motion pictures > United States > History > 20th century.
United States.
California > Los Angeles.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: classical Hollywood cinema and film studies
  • The early thirties: modernity, new women, and the aesthetic of attractions
  • Normative desires and visual sobriety: apogee of the classical model
  • The male subject of noir and the modern gaze
  • (Dis)adventures of female desire in the 1940s woman's film
  • Excess, spectacle, sensation: family melodrama in the 1950s
  • Performative bodies and non-referential images: excesses of the musical.

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