Originally published: 2007. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction / James Chapman / Mark Glancy / Sue Harper -- Part I. History -- 1. Gone With the Wind (1939) and the Lost Cause: A Critical View / Melvyn Stokes -- 2. History and Representation: The Case of 1970s British Cinema / Sue Harper -- 3. Gallipoli (1981): 'A Poignant Search for National Identity' / Mark Connelly -- 4. 'This Ship is England': History, Politics and National Identity in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) / James Chapman -- Part II. Authorship -- 5. Art in Context: British Film Design of the 1940s / Laurie Ede -- 6. The Author as Author: Restoring the Screenwriter to British Film History / Andrew Spicer -- 7. When 'Hanoi Jane' Conquered Hollywood: Jane Fonda's Films and Activism, 1977-81 / Peter Krämer -- Part III. Genre -- 8. The Politics of the Swashbuckler / Jeffrey Richards -- 9. The Stalinist Musical / Richard Taylor -- 10. Now, Voyager (1942): Melodrama Then and Now / Martin Shingler -- 11. From Gangsta to Gangster: The Hood Film's Criminal Allegiance with Hollywood / Jonathan Munby -- Part IV. Reception -- 12. Blackmail (1929), Hitchcock and Film Nationalism / Mark Glancy -- 13. British Cinema, American Reception: Black Narcissus (1947) and the Legion of Decency / Sarah Street -- 14. Studying Cross-Cultural Marketing and Reception: Ingmar Bergman's Persona (1966) / Ingrid Stigsdotter / Tim Bergfelder -- 15. The Wicker Man (1973) Email Digest: A Case Study in Web Ethnography / Justin Smith -- Index
Summary:
The New Film History is an accessible and wide-ranging account of the methods, sources and approaches used by modern film historians. Written in an engaging and lively style, the book seeks to overcome the traditional divide between Film Studies and Film History and to offer an overview of the key areas of research, including reception studies, genre, authorship and the historical film. It also offers detailed case studies on topics such as national identity and the historical film, the place of the screenwriter in authorship studies, the relationship between gangster and 'gansta', and the use of the Internet in reception studies. With contributions from fifteen leading film historians, this is the first major overview of the field of film history to be published in twenty years.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.