Questa serie approfondisce l'intricato rapporto tra cinema e storia, esplorando come la cinematografia plasmi la nostra comprensione del passato e come gli eventi storici vengano rappresentati sullo schermo. Ogni volume offre analisi approfondite su temi, generi o cineasti specifici, fornendo nuove prospettive su questa dinamica interazione. È una lettura essenziale per studiosi del cinema, storici e chiunque sia interessato al significato culturale dei media visivi. La collezione illumina il potere del cinema nell'interpretare, preservare e talvolta sfidare le narrazioni storiche.
The only person to receive four Academy Awards for best director, John Ford is considered by some to be America's greatest homegrown filmmaker. This book looks at the two genres of films for which Ford was most well-known--Westerns such as She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, The Searchers, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance--and military films including They Were Expendable and the Oscar-winning documentary The Battle of Midway.
In Smart Chicks on Screen: Representing Women's Intellect in Film and Television, Laura Mattoon D'Amore brings together a collection of essays that examine the disparate portrayals of beauty and brains in film and television. This text will be of interest to scholars of film and television, communications, and women's studies, to name a few.
This volume compares films from the late Cold War era with films of the same genre, or of similar themes, from the post-Cold War era, paying particular attention to shifts in narrative that reflect changes in American culture, attitudes, and ideas. It explains how the absence of the Cold War has... číst celé