Detailed description Fully revised, updated, and extended, this compilation of interpretive essays and primary documents teaches students to read films as cultural artifacts within the contexts of actual past events. * A new edition of this classic textbook, which ties movies into the broader narrative of US and film history * Ten new articles which consider recently released films, as well as issues of gender and ethnicity * Well-organized within a chronological framework with thematic treatments to provide a valuable resource for students of the history of American film * Fourth edition includes completely new images throughout
From the contents Preface
Introduction: The Social and Cultural History of American Film
Part I / The Silent Era
Part II / Hollywood's Golden Age
Part III / Wartime Hollywood
Part IV / Postwar Hollywood
Part V / Hollywood and the Tumultous 1960s
Part VI / Hollywood in our Time
A bibliography of recent books in American film history
