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Stephen Prince. Classical Film Violence: Designing and Regulating Brutality in Hollywood Cinema, 1930-1968

Publisher:
Year:2003
Pages:331
ISBN:0813532817

Book DescriptionStephen Prince has written the first book to examine the interplay between the aesthetics and the censorship of violence in classic Hollywood films from 1930 to 1968, the era of the Production Code, when filmmakers were required to have their scripts approved before they could start production. He explains how Hollywood?s filmmakers designed violence in response to the regulations of the Production Code and regional censors. Graphic violence in today?s movies actually has its roots in these early films. Hollywood?s filmmakers were drawn to violent scenes and "pushed the envelope" of what they could depict by manipulating the Production Code Administration (PCA). Prince shows that many choices about camera position, editing, and blocking of the action and sound were ...

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Dominique Mainon, James Ursini. The Modern Amazons : Warrior Women on Screen

Publisher:Limelight Editions
Year:2006
Pages:400
ISBN:0879103272

The Modern Amazons: Warrior Women on Screen documents the public's seemingly insatiable fascination with the warrior woman archetype in film and on television. The book examines the cautious beginnings of new roles for women in the late fifties, the rapid development of female action leads during the burgeoning second-wave feminist movement in the late sixties and seventies, and the present-day onslaught of female action characters now leaping from page to screen. The book itself is organized into chapters that group women warriors into sub-genres, e.g., classic Amazons like Xena Warrior Princess and the women of the Conan films; superheroes and their archenemies such as Wonder Woman, Batgirl, and Catwoman; revenge films such as the Kill Bill movies; Sexploitation and Blaxploitation ...

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Robert C. Bulman. Hollywood Goes to High School: Cinema, Schools, and American Culture

Publisher:
Year:2004
Pages:191
ISBN:0716755416

Book Description Hollywood Goes to High School explores the high school film genre and American culture at large. In this brief supplemental book, Robert Bulman separates high school films into three analytical categories and explores how theyreflect America's preoccupation with individualism and its ambivalent feelings about wealth and inequality. By looking at this genre as more than just entertainment, Bulman shows how these films reflect American attitudes toward education, social class,and adolescence. Hollywood Goes to High School can be incorporated into a variety of courses in sociology, education, history, anthropology, American studies, and film studies.

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Gay Hendricks. Spiritual Cinema

Publisher:
Year:2005
Pages:169
ISBN:1401907024

Book DescriptionWould you like to discover a new world of movies that expands your mind, warms your hearts and stirs your soul? If so, this book is sure to become a valuable resource for you. Here you will find a treasure trove of films that inspire you and celebrate every aspect of the human spirit. Spiritual Cinema asks the big questions about life and living: Who are we? Why are we here? Where are we bound? and What can we become when we live at our highest level of potential? This book can lightyour path to hundreds of hours of inspiration and wisdom.