Screening America

Basic Information

Title

Screening America

Subtitle

United States History Through Film Since 1900

Parallel Title

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Country

국외

Production Date

2006-**-**

Language

영어

Size (mm)

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Pages

212쪽

ISBN/ISSN

0321143167

Edition

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Master Files

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Producer

James J.Lorence (저자), Pearson Education (발행처)

Description

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Contents

Contents

Preface = ⅶ Introduction: The Analysis of Primary Sources = 1 PART Ⅰ: Progressive America: Militant Reform and the Postwar Reaction Chapter 1: Social Protest: A Corner in Wheat(1909) as Muckraking Film = 9 Chapter 2: Cultural History Through a Cloudy Lens: The Birth of a Nation(1915) and the Racial Climate of Progressive America = 19 Chapter 3: Social Change and Sexual Politics: Dancing Mothers(1926) and Moral Ambiguity in the Jazz Age = 31 Chapter 4: The End of Romantic War: All Quiet on the Western Front(1930) and Disillusionment in the Interwar Era = 44 PART Ⅱ: A Nation Under Stress: The Depths of Economic Despair Chapter 5: Making It in Depression America: The Street or the stage in Gold Diggers of 1933(1933) = 55 Chapter 6: The Resilient People: The Grapes of Wrath(1940) Exposes Poverty in the Land of Plenty = 65 PART Ⅲ: A Democracy at War Chapter 7: Thinking of Intervention: Foreign Correspondent(1940) and the Winds of War = 78 Chapter 8: Government Persuasion: Prelude to War(1943), The Negro Soldier(1944), and the Issues of the War = 90 Chapter 9: Social Unity in a Nation at War: Since You Went Away(1944) and Women's Mobilization for Victory = 104 PART Ⅳ: Cold War America: Domestic Anticommunism and Fear of Failure Chapter 10: Hollywood's Cold War: The Suppression of Salt of the Earth(1954) = 117 Chapter 11: A Cautionary Tale: Dr. Strangelove(1964) as a Vision of Nuclear Endgame = 131 Chapter 12: The Alienation Films of the 1960s: The Graduate(1967), and social Fragmentation = 144 PART Ⅴ: Legacies: Toward Modern America Chapter 13: Worker Solidarity and Human Dignity: Norma Rae(1979) and Southern Labor Activism = 157 Chapter 14: Coming Home(1978): Vietnam and the Uncertain Future of American Foreign Policy = 169 Chapter 15: Unfinished Business: Do the Right Thing(1989) and the Escalation of Social Tension = 182 Chapter 16: Suburban Anxiety in Modern America: American Beauty(1999) and the Pitfalls of Prosperity = 195 Epilogue: Thinking About Your Movies = 204 Credits = 207 Index = 209

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