Screen Ages is a valuable guide for students exploring the
complex and vibrant history of US cinema and showing how this film
culture has grown, changed and developed.
Covering key periods from across American cinema history, John
Alberti explores the social, technological and political forces
that have shaped cinematic output and the varied impacts cinema of
on US society.
Each chapter has a series of illuminating key features,
including:
- Now Playing, focusing on films as cinematic events, from "The
Birth of a Nation" to "Gone with the Wind" to "Titanic, "to place
the reader in the social context of those viewing the films for the
first time
- In Development, exploring changing genres, from the melodrama
to the contemporary super hero movies,
- The Names Above and Below the Title, portraying the impact and
legacy of central figures, including Florence Lawrence, Orson
Welles and Wes Anderson
- Case studies, analyzing key elements of films in more
depth
- Glossary terms featured throughout the text, to aid
non-specialist students and expand the readers understanding of
changing screen cultures.
"
Screen Ages" illustrates how the history of US cinema has always
been and continues to be one of multiple screens, audiences,
venues, and markets. It is an essential text for all those wanting
to understand of power of American cinema throughout history and
the challenges for its future.
The book is also supported by a companion website, featuring
additional case studies, an interactive blog, a quiz bank for each
chapter and an online chapter, Screen Ages Today that will be
updated to discuss the latest developments in American cinema."
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