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- 9780292726802
- Book Title
- American Film Cycles : Reframing Genres, Screening Social Problems, and Defining Subcultures
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Genre
- Performing Arts
- Topic
- Film / General, Film / History & Criticism
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 19.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 255 Pages
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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.
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Publisher
University of Texas Press
ISBN-10
0292726805
ISBN-13
9780292726802
eBay Product ID (ePID)
109199856
Product Key Features
Book Title
American Film Cycles : Reframing Genres, Screening Social Problems, and Defining Subcultures
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Film / General, Film / History & Criticism
Publication Year
2011
Genre
Performing Arts
Number of Pages
255 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
19.8 Oz
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Pn1993.5.U6k525 2011
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""As one of the first scholars to directly confront the phenomenon of film cycles, Klein makes a compelling argument for other scholars to continue to address the subject head on."", The strength of American Film Cycles is its precise and thorough intervention in genre studies with a new form of taxonomy and analysis., But as a work in its own right, American Film Cycles is plenty compelling….It is Klein's achievement to not only suggest a new evolutionary model for the way topical movies operate, but also to sketch a plausible symbiosis between movies, studios, and audiences that offers fresh insights into both the film industry and the larger society. It remains for other writers to pick up her example, and apply to it additional film cycles, moving beyond the current author's necessary limited focus on films dealing with the fears and fascinations of American urban life., One sign of a successful work of scholarship is, oddly enough, that it inspires readers to think about other things, drawing connections from the book's topics to issues that might be more within the reader's own frame of reference and research interests. Thus American Film Cycles is a great book to think with, making a convincing case for the importance of cycles in film history beyond just her particular case studies, and highlighting how the study of cycles can strengthen our understanding of a range of issues, including cultural representations, taboo topics, censorship, production strategies, and fan subcultures. In short, Klein's engagingly-written book should become a must-read for scholars and students interested in film history and the role of genre, and will hopefully inspire further explorations of cycles as a vital aspect of understanding film and media., ""The strength of American Film Cycles is its precise and thorough intervention in genre studies with a new form of taxonomy and analysis."", As one of the first scholars to directly confront the phenomenon of film cycles, Klein makes a compelling argument for other scholars to continue to address the subject head on.
Table of Content
Acknowledgments Introduction. Love at First Sight Chapter 1. Real Gangsters Do Cry: A Cyclical Approach to Film Genres Chapter 2. Real Gangsters Do Cry: Understanding How Film Cycles Change over Time Chapter 3. I Was a Teenage Film Cycle: The Relationship between Youth Subcultures and Film Cycles Chapter 4. Not Only Screen But the Projector as Well: The Relationship between Race and Film Cycles Conclusion. Love, Disdain, and the Future of Cycle Studies Appendix. Selected Filmographies Notes Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2011
Lccn
2011-021427
Dewey Decimal
302.23/43
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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