A series of movies that share images, characters, settings, plots,
or themes, film cycles have been an industrial strategy since the
beginning of cinema. While some have viewed them as "subgenres,"
mini-genres, or nascent film genres, Amanda Ann Klein argues that
film cycles are an entity in their own right and a subject worthy
of their own study. She posits that film cycles retain the marks of
their historical, economic, and generic contexts and therefore can
reveal much about the state of contemporary politics, prevalent
social ideologies, aesthetic trends, popular desires, and
anxieties. American Film Cycles presents a series of case studies
of successful film cycles, including the melodramatic gangster
films of the 1920s, the 1930s Dead End Kids cycle, the 1950s
juvenile delinquent teenpic cycle, and the 1990s ghetto action
cycle. Klein situates these films in several historical
trajectories—the Progressive movement of the 1910s and 1920s, the
beginnings of America's involvement in World War II, the "birth" of
the teenager in the 1950s, and the drug and gangbanger crises of
the early 1990s. She shows how filmmakers, audiences, film
reviewers, advertisements, and cultural discourses interact with
and have an impact on the film texts. Her findings illustrate the
utility of the film cycle in broadening our understanding of
established film genres, articulating and building upon beliefs
about contemporary social problems, shaping and disseminating
deviant subcultures, and exploiting and reflecting upon racial and
political upheaval.
General
| Imprint: |
University Of Texas Press
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| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
December 2011 |
| First published: |
2011 |
| Authors: |
Amanda Ann Klein
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
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| Pages: |
255 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-292-74760-9 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Arts & Architecture >
General
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| LSN: |
0-292-74760-8 |
| Barcode: |
9780292747609 |
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