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Hollywood Renaissance
The Cinema of Democracy in the Era of Ford, Kapra, and Kazan

  • Date Published: August 1998
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9780521625524

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  • American film directors from the late 1930s to the early 1960s instigated a renaissance of original artistic works that helped reinvigorate and renew American culture. During a time of unprecedented danger from anti-democratic forces both abroad and at home, the most imaginative and creative films of these directors - John Ford, Frank Capra, Howard Hawks, Fred Zinnemann, Elia Kazan, George Stevens - articulated issues, themes, and realities at the core of the American experience. In this lively and original book, Sam Girgus offers a fresh look at films such as The Searchers, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, It's a Wonderful Life, High Noon, and On the Waterfront. He shows how these films are part of the cultural and historic debate that examines, structures, and questions what modern America means to its people, the world, and history.

    • Author well-known from CUP Woody Allen book
    • Close, detailed readings of individual films
    • Synthesizes film studies, American Studies, critical theory, and contemporary Freudian and Lacanian interpretations of character
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    • Date Published: August 1998
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9780521625524
    • length: 272 pages
    • dimensions: 229 x 153 x 16 mm
    • weight: 0.429kg
    • contains: 15 b/w illus.
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    1. Ethnics and Roughnecks: The making of the Hollywood renaissance
    2. The cinema for democracy: John Ford
    3. Gender and American character: Frank Capra
    4. Revisioning heroic masculinity: Hawks and Zinnemann
    5. An American conscience: Elia Kazan
    6. Losing tomorrow: George Stevens
    Conclusion.

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    Sam B. Girgus, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee

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