Movies and American society /

• Other Authors: Ross, Steven Joseph (επιμελητής)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford ; Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2002.
• Subjects: Κινηματογράφος > Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες Αμερικής > Ιστορία; Κινηματογράφος > Κοινωνικές απόψεις > Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες Αμερικής

Table of Contents:

• Going to the movies: early audiences
• Heroes and heroines of their own entertainment: progressive-era cinema
• The rise of Hollywood movies: ideology, and audiences in the roaring twenties
• Who controls what we see? censorship and the attack on Hollywood "immorality"
• Confronting the Great Depression: renewing democracy in hard times
• Alternative cinemas: movies on the margins
• Seeing red: cold war Hollywood
• Eisenhower's America: prosperity and problems in the 1950s
• Black and white in color: race and film in the 1960s and 1970s
• Vietnam and the crisis of American power movies, war, and militarism
• Reagan's America: the backlash against women and men
• Hollywood goes global: the internationalization of American cinema.