The Cinema Book

INTRODUCTION = ix Notes on using the book = x Contributors = xi Part 1 : Hollywood Cinema and Beyond EARLY AND PRE-SOUND CINEMA (Richard Abel) = 3 Cast studies = 9 The Great Train Robbery (1903) A policeman's Tour of the World/Le Tour du monde d'un policier (1906) A Narrow Escape or The Physician of the Castle/Le Médecin du château (1908) The Lonedale Operator (1911) The Greater Love (1912) In the Clutches of the Paris Apaches/L'Enfant de Paris (1913) THE RISE OF THE AMERICAN FILM INDUSTRY (Annette Kuhn and Richard Abel) = 12 THE CLASSIC STUDIO SYSTEM (Annette Kuhn and Thomas Schatz) = 19 Paramount Pictures (Thomas Schatz) = 20 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (Thomas Schatz) = 23 Warner Bros. (Annette Kuhn) = 26 Case studies = 29 The public Enemy (1931) I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) Racket Busters (1938) The Roaring Twenties (1939) They Drive by Night (1940) Columbia Pictures (Annette Kuhn) = 30 Case studies = 34 Mr Deeds Goes to Town (1936) The Big Heat (1953) The Man from Laramie (1955) The Lineup (1958) Anatomy of a Murder (1959) 20th Century Fox (Annette Kuhn) = 35 Case studies = 37 Sunrise A Song of Two Humans (1927) The Littlest Rebel (1935) Broken Arrow (1950) RKO Radio Pictures (Annette Kuhn) = 38 Cast studies = 41 King Kong (1933) Dance, Girl, Dance (1940) The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) Cat People (1943) Universal (Annette Kuhn) = 42 CLASSIC HOLLYWOOD NARRATIVE (Annette Kuhn) = 45 Case studies = 47 His Girl Friday (1939) Stagecoach (1939) Mildred Pierce (1945) River of No Return (1954) Marnie (1954) Klute (1971) GLOBAL HOLLYWOOD = 49 Post-war golbalisation (Tino Balio) = 49 The Major independents (Geoff King) = 54 Case studies Miramax under Disney = 55 Lion's Gate Entertainment = 58 Indiewood features : Lost in Translation (2003) = 59 New Hollywood (Nöel King) = 60 Case study = 68 Pulp Fiction (1994) Contemporary women directors (Yvonne Tasker) = 68 Case studies Jane Campion = 69 Mira Nair = 70 Rose Troche = 72 AT THE EDGES OF HOLLYWOOD = 75 New distribution, exhibition and reception contexts (Barbara Klinger) = 75 African-American cinema : Oscar Micheaus (Niamh Doheny) = 77 Case studies = 78 Within Our Gates (1919) Veiled Aristocrates (1932) Documentary (Bill Nichols) = 81 Cast study = 82 Capturing the Fredmans (2003) Art cinema (Angela Ndalianis) = 83 Cast studies: (Julian Petley) = 85 The Adventure/L'avventura (1960) Last Year at Marienbad/L'Année Derniére à Marienbad (1961) Animation (Paul Wells) = 87 Case studies = 88 Ryan (2004) Dreams and Desires: Family Ties (2006) Avant-garde and counter-cinema (Alison butler) = 89 Case studies = 95 An Andalusian Dog/Un chien andalou (1928) Wind from the Ease/Le Vent d'est (1969) Privilege (1990) Third World and postcolonial cinema (Robert Stam) = 97 Cast studies = 104 Barren Lives/Vidas secas (1963) The Hour of the Furnaces/La hora de los hornos (1968) Impotence/Xala (1974) One Way or Another/De cierta manera (1977) Alexandria... Why?/Iskandariya... Leeh? (1978) Nice Coloured Grils (1987) Sankofa (1933) Part 2 : The Star System THE HOLLYWOOD STAR MACHINE (James Donald) = 110 ACTING IN CINEMA (James naremore) = 114 STARS BEFORE SOUND (Gaylyn Studlar) = 119 Cast studies Douglas Fairbanks = 119 Joan Crawford = 120 STARS AFTER SOUND (Erica Carter) = 122 Case study Marlene Dietrich = 12 STARS IN POSTWAR CINEMA (Steven Cohan) = 126 Case studies Doris Day = 127 Paul Newman = 128 Jane Fonda = 129 CONTEMPORARY STAROOM (Chris Holmlund) = 131 Case studies Arnold Schwarzenegger = 132 Whoopi Goldberg = 133 George Clooney = 135 Part 3 : Technologies INTRODUCTION (Michale Allen) = 139 SOUND (Michael Allen and Annette Kuhn) = 142 Case studies = 144 The Jazz Singer (1927) (Michael Allen) The Public Enemy (1931) (Annette Kuhn) Jurassic Park (1993) (Michael Allen) COLOUR (Michael Allen and Annette Kuhn) = 146 Case studies = 147 Gone With the Wind (1939) (Michael Allen) She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) (Michael Allen) Lust of Life (1956) (Steve Neale) DEEP-FOCUS (Michale Allen and Annette Kuhn) = 149 Case studies: (Michael Allen) = 150 The Rules of the Game/La Règle du jeu (1939) The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) Part 4 : World Cinemas NATIONAL CINEMAS IN THE GLOBAL ERA (Elizabeth Ezra) = 168 AUSTRALIAN CINEMA (Brian McFarlane) = 171 Case studies = 174 Newsfront (1978) Jindabyne (2006) BRITISH CINEMA = 175 Introduction (Sarah Street) = 175 The British film industry Ealing Studios (Annette Kuhn) = 176 Gainsborough Pictures (sarah Street) = 178 Case study = 179 The Lodger : A Story of the London Fog (1926) Hammer Productions (annette kuhn) = 180 British social realism 1959-63 (Annette Kuhn) = 183 Case studies = 185 Room at the Top (1958) A Taste of Honey (1961) Contemporary British cinema (Sarah Street) = 185 Case study = 186 28 Days Later... (2002) Scottish cinema (Duncan Petrie) = 187 Case studies = 189 Bill Douglas and Bill Forsyth Lynne Ramsay and Peter Mullan Welsh cinema (David Berry) = 190 Case study = 191 Marc Evans CHINESE CINEMA (Chris Berry) = 192 Case studies = 195 Two Stage Sisters/Wutai Jiemei (1965) Yellow Earth/Huang Tudi (1984) DANISH CINEMA (Richard T. Kelly) = 196 Dogme 95 = 196 Case studies = 197 The Celebration/Festen (1998) The Idiots/Idioterne (1998) FRENCH CINEMA = 199 Introduction (Ginette Vincendeau) = 199 French cinema in the 1930s (Luch Mazdon) = 200 Case study = 202 Carnival in Flanders/La Kermesse héroïque (1935) The Nouvelle Vague (Annette Kuhn) = 202 French cinema since the 1980s (Ginette Vincendeau) = 204 Case studies = 205 The new French extremism François Ozon GERMAN CINEMA = 207 Introduction (Tim Bergfelder) = 207 Weimar cinema (Annette Kuhn and Julia knight) = 208 Case study : (Tim Bergfelder) = 210 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari/Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1919) New German cinema (Julia Knight) = 211 Case studies = 213 Yesterday Girl/Abschied von gestern (1966) The marriage of Maria Braun/Die Ehe der Maria Braun (1979) Germany, Pale Mother/Deutschland bleiche Mutter (1980) Contemporary German cinema (Tim Bergfelder) = 214 Case study = 216 Run Lola Run/Lola rennt (1998) HINDI CINEMA (Ashish Rajadhyaksha) = 217 Bollywood (Rachel Dwyer) = 221 Case studies = 222 Kaliya Mardan (1919) (Ashish Rajadhyaksha) Song of the Road/Pather Panchali (1955) (Ashish Rajadhyaksha) Eternal Thirst/Pyaasa (1958) (Ashish Rajadhyaksha) Embers/Sholay (1975) (Ashish Rajadhyaksha) The Brave Heart Takes the Bride/Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge (1955) (Rachel Dwyer) HONG KONG CINEMA (Stephen Teo) = 224 Case studies = 226 A Touch of Zen/Xia Nü (1969) Chungking Express/Chongging Senlin (1994) Kung Fu Hustle/Gongfu (2004) Election/Hei Shehui (2005) ; election 2/Hei Shehui Yihe Weigui (2006) IRISH CINEMA (John Hill) = 228 Case study = 230 Intermission (2003) ITALIAN CINEMA (Richard Dyer) = 231 Italian Neo-realism (Geoffrey Nowell-Smith) = 233 Case studies : Sophia Loren (Richard Dyer) = 232 Cabiria (1914) (Richard Dyer) = 236 Paisà (1946) (Sheila Johnston) Umberto D (1952) (Sheila Johnston) JAPANESS CINEMA = 238 Introduction (Kathe Geist) = 238 Contemporary Japanese cinema (Alastair Phillips and Julian Stringer) = 239 Contemporary Japanese horror = 240 Anime = 241 Case studies = 242 Late Spring/Banshun (1949) (Kathe Geist) Sisters of the Gion/Gion no shimai (1936) (Kathe Geist) Love Letter (1995) (Alastair Phillips and Julian Stringer) Pulse/Kairo (2001) (Alastair Phillips and Julian Stringer) SOVIET CINEMA (Annette Kuhn) = 244 Case studies = 246 The Battleship Potemkin/Bronenosets Potemkin (1925) (Annette kuhn) The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty/Padenie dinastii Romanovykh (1927) (Pam Cook) The Great Way/Velikii put (1927) (Pam Cook) Earth/Zemlya (1930) (Annette Kuhn) SPANISH CINEMA (Núria Triana-Toribio) = 248 Case studies = 249 Torrente, the Stupid Arm of the Law/Torrente, el brazo tonto de la ley (1998); Mission in Marbella/Torrente 2 : Missión en marbella (2002); Torrente 3: The Protector/Torrente 3: El protector (2005) Work in Progress/En construcción (2001) Part 5 : Genre HISTORY OF GENRE CRITICISM = 252 Introduction (Christine Gledhill) = 252 Genre theory since the 1980s (Steve Neale) = 260 ACTION-ADVENTURE (Steve Neale) = 265 Case studies : (Yvonne Tasker) = 268 The Thief of Bagdad (1924) Die Hard (1988) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon/Wohu Canglong (2000) COMEDY (Steve Neale) = 270 Case studies = 272 Lover Come Back (1961) (Frank Krutnik) The Patsy (1946) (Frank Krutnik) Miss Congeniality (2000) (Claire Hines) Down With Love (2003) (Pam Cook) CONTEMPORARY CRIME (Steve Neale) = 277 The gangster film (Christine Gledhill) = 279 The suspense thriller (Steve Neale) = 286 Case studies : = 287 Scarface (1932) (Christine Gledhill) The Roaring Twenties (1939) (Christine Gledhill) Dirty Harry (1971) (Christine Gledhill) Blue Steel (1990) (Pam Cook) Heat (1995) (Barry Keith Grant) Inside Man (2006) (Barry Keith Grant) COSTUME DRAMA = 291 Introduction (Pam Cook) = 291 Gainsborough costume melodrama (Sarah Street) = 292 Heritage cinema (Ginette Vincendeau) = 292 Contemporary costume drama (Pam Cook) = 294 Case studies = 295 The Wicked Lady (1945) (Sarah Street) Jean de Florette/Manon des sources (1986) (Ginette Vincendeau) Moulin Rouge! (2001) (Pam Cook) Pride & Prejudice (2995) (Ginette Vincendeau) Marie Antoinette (2006) (Pam Cook) EXPLOITATION CINEMA (Linda Ruth Williams) = 298 Blaxploitation (Tommy L. Lott) = 301 FILM NOIR (Jane Root) = 305 Noir and neo-noir (Steve Neale) = 309 Case studies = 311 Double Indemnity (1944) (Jane Root) Kiss Me Deadly (1955) (Jane Root) Mean Streets (1973) (Leightoon Grist) Chinatown (1974) (Leighton Grist) L.A. Confidential (1997) (Barry Keith Grant) A History of Violence (2005) (Barry Keith Grant) MELODRAMA (Christine Gledhill) = 316 Melodrama and the woman's film since the 1990s (Steve Neale) = 325 Case studies = 326 A Fool There Was (1915) (Christine Gledhill) Way Down East (1920) (Michael Allen) Sunrise A Song of Two Humans (1927) (Christine Gledhill) Stella Dallas (1937) (Christine Gledhill) Gaslight (1944) (Guy Barefoot) Wnitten on the Wind (1957) (Christine Gledhill) In the Mood for Love/Huayang Nianhua (2000) (Pam Cook) Far from Heaven (2002) (Pam Cook) THE MUSICAL (Steve Neale) = 333 Case studies = 338 Gold diggers of 1933 (1933) (Andy Medhurst) Top Hat (1935) (Andy Medhurst) Meet Me in St Louis (1944) (Steve Neale) Singin' in the Rain (1952) (Steve neale) Sweet Charity (1968) (Andy Medhurst) Saturday Night Fever (1977) (Andy Medhurst) Strictly Ballroom (1922) (Andy Medhurst) Vluet Goldmine (1998) (Andy Medhurst) SCIENCE FICTION AND HORROR = 344 Science fiction (Steve Neale) =344 The horror film (Christine Gledhill) = 347 Body horror (Michael Grant) = 355 Case studies = 360 Frankenstein (1931) (Michael Grant) Psycho (1960) (Michael Grant) Star Wars (1977) (Steve Neale) Alien (1979) (Steve Neale) The Thing (1982) (Michael Grant) Dead Ringers (1988) (Michael Grant) The Blair Witch Project (1999) (Barry keith Grant) War of the Worlds (2005) (Barry Keith Grant) TEENPICS (Steve Neale) = 367 Case studies = 370 Rebel Without a Cause (1955) (Leslie Felperin) Grease (1978) (Leslie Felperin) Kids (1955) (Claire Hines) Gummo (1997) (Leslie Felperin) Cruel Intentions (1999) (Claire Hines) THE WESTERN (Christine Gledhill) = 374 Westerns in the 1980s and 1990s (Edward Buscombe) = 381 Case studies = 382 My Darling Clementine (1946) (Christine Gledhill) Johnny Guitar (1954) (Christine Gledhill) Guns in the Afternoon/Ride the HightCountry (1962) (Christine Gledhill) Unforgiven (1992) (Edward Buscombe) Ballad of Little Jo (199) (Pam Cook) Part 6 : Authorship and Cinema INTRODUCTION (Pam Cook) = 387 FOR A NEW FRENCH CINEMA : THE POLITIQUE DES AUTEURS (Pam Cook) = 390 Case studies : Jean Renoir = 391 Boudu Saved from Drowning/Boudu sauvé des eaux (1932) The Crime of Monsieur Lange/Le Crime de Monsieur Lange (1935) La Grande Illusion (1937) The Rules of the Game/La Régle du jeu (1939) This land Is Mine (1943) The Woman on the Beach (1947) French Can-Can (1955) The Vanishing Corporal/Le Caporal épinglé (1962) Fritz Lang = 395 Destiny/Der Müde Tod (1921) Dr Mabuse the Gambler/Dr Mabuse, der spieler Part 1 and Part 2 (1922) The Nibelungen Part 2/Die Nibelungen 2 (1924) Metropolis (1927) M (1931) Rancho Notorious (1952) The Big Heat (1953) Beyoud a Reasonable Doubt (1956) Alfred Hitchcock = 399 Blackmail (1929) Foreign Correspondent (1940) Mr & Mrs Smith (1941) Shadow of a Doubt (1943) Under Capricorn (1949) Psycho (1960) The Birds (1963) Marnie (1964) Orson Welles = 403 Citizen kane (1941) The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) Touch of Evil (1958) Jean-Luc godard = 405 Breathless/A bout de souffle (1960) The Outsiders/Bande à part (1964) The Married Woman/Une fremme Mariée (1964) Pierrot le fou (1965) Masculine Feminine/Masculin féminin 15 faits Précis (1966) François Truffaut = 408 The 400 Blows/Les Quatre cents coups (1959) Jules and Jim/Jules et Jim (1962) Silken Skin/La Peau douce (1964) THE AUTEUR THEORY (Pam Cook) = 410 Andrew Sarris and American film criticism = 410 Case studies : D. W. Griffith = 411 The Birth of a Nation (1915) Intolerance (1916) Hearts of the World (1918) Nicholas Ray = 414 They Live by Night (1948) On Dangerous Ground (1952) The Lusty Men (1952) Johnny Guitar (1954) Rebel Without a Cause (1955) The Tru Story of jesse james/The James Brothers (1957) Roger Crman = 417 Machine Gun Kelly (1958) The Haunted Palace (1963) The Tomb of Ligeia (1964) The St Valentine's Day Massacre (1967) AUTEUR THEORY IN BRITAIN (Pam Cook) = 419 Case studies : Lindsay Anderson = 423 This Sporting Life (1963) If... (1968) Karel Reisz = 423 Saturday Night and sunday Morning (1960) Morgan - a Suitable Case for Treatment (1966) Joseph Losey = 425 The Criminal (1960) Eva/Eve (1962) The Damned (1963) Accident (1967) Elia Kazan = 428 Streetcar Named Desire (1951) Viva Zapata! (1952) On the Waterfront (1954) Baby Doll (1956) A Face in the Crowd (1957) Wild River (1960) British auteurs = 431 Case studies : David Lean = 432 Brief Encounter (1945) Powell and Pressburger = 434 I Know Where I'm Going! (1945) The Red Shoes (1948) Contemporary British directors = 435 Stephen Frears = 435 Danny Boyle = 436 Gurinder Chadha = 437 British cinema : auteur and studio Ealing Studios = 438 Case studies : Robert Hamer = 439 Dead of Night [The Haunted Mirror] (1945) Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) Alexander Mackendrick = 441 The Man in the White Suit (1951) Mandy (1952) Hammer Productions = 442 Case studies : Terence Fisher = 443 Dracula (1958) The Mummy (1959) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959) The Brides of Dracula (1960) Dracula Prince of Darkness (1965) The Devil Rides Out (1968) AUTEUR THEORY AND STRUCTURALISM (Pam Cook) = 446 French intellenctual context = 446 Structuralism and British film criticism = 447 Structuralism, individualism and auteur theory = 449 Cultural politics and auteur theory = 450 Case studies : Douglas Sirk = 452 To New Shores/Zu neuen Ufern (1937) All That Heaven Allows (1956) Written on the Wind (1956) Auteur structuralism under attack = 454 Case studies Howard Hawks = 456 Scarface (1932) Bringing Up Baby (1938) His Girl Friday (1939) Sergeant York (1941) To Have and Have Not (1944) The Big Sky (1952) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) Rio Bravo (1959) AUTEUR STUDY AFTER STRUCTURALISM (Pam Cook) = 460 Case studies : John Ford = 462 The Informer (1935) Stagecoach (1939) The Grapes of Wrath (1940) How Green Was My Valley (1941) My Darling Clementine (1946) Fort Apache (1948) The Searchers (1956) Sergeant Futledge (1960) THE AUTHOR NEVER DIES (Pam Cook) = 467 Auteurism, Godard and counter-cinema = 467 Auteurism and women directors = 468 Case studies : Dorothy Arzner = 470 Dance, Girl, Dance (1940) Stephanie Rothman = 470 The Student Nurses (1970) Thrminal Island/Knuckle-men (1973) Agnès Vards = 473 Happiness/Le Bonheur (1965) AUTEURISM IN THE 19990s (Nöel King and Toby Miller) = 474 AUTHORSHIP REVISED AND REVIVED (Pam Cook) = 479 Four contemporary directors Kathryn Bigelow = 479 Sofia Coppola = 480 Baz Luhrmann = 481 Wong Kar-wai = 482 Part 7 : Developments in Theory FEMINISM AND FILM SINCE THE 1990S (Barbara Greed) = 487 FEMINIST FILM THEORY (Anneke Smelik) = 491 Case studies = 501 Morocco (1930) Reassemblage (1982) Antonia's Line/Antonia (1955) QUEER THEORY AND NEW QUEER CINEMA (Jackie Stacey) = 505 Case study : = 507 New Queer Cinema TRANSNATIONAL FILM STUDIES (Dina Iordanova) = 508 Case study : = 509 Floatring Life (1996) STRUCTURALISM AND ITS AFTERMATHS (John Thompson) = 510 Case studies : (Sheila Johnston) Metz = 514 Adieu Phillippine (1962) All Is Well/Tout Va bien (1972) Propp = 516 To Have and have Not (1944) Kiss Me Deadly (1955) Bazin = 526 Citizen Kane (1941) The Little Foxes (1941) POST-THEORY, NEOFORMALISM AND COGNITIVISM (Daniel Barratt) = 530 LOOKING AT FILM (Richard neupert) = 532 Case studies : = 536 Battleship Potemkin/Bronenosets Potemkin (1925) The Graduate (1967) Three Colours White/Trois couleurs blance (1994) SPECTATORSHIP AND AUDIENCE RESEARCH (Pamela Robertson Wojcik) = 538 Case studies : = 544 Queen Christina (1933) Gone With the Wind (1939) POSTMODERNISM AND FILM (Möel King) = 546 Case study : = 547 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) BIBLIOGRAPHY = 549 INDEX = 590

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