Screen histories : a screen reader
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Screen histories : a screen reader
Clarendon Press, 1998
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A collection of articles published in Screen over the past twenty years
Description and Table of Contents
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: hc ISBN 9780198159469
Description
Screen Histories: A 'Screen' Reader offers a selection of some of the best work on the varied and changing notions of the category 'history' in screen studies published in Screen in the last twenty years. The book brings together important work in this area at a time when 'history' is an increasingly contested category within academic debate. It includes interventions on the conceptualization of history in studies of screen institutions, technologies, discourses, texts, and audiences. In addition, the varied meanings of the concept of history for film and television studies in both Britain and the USA are represented and fully explored. The book includes contributions by established scholars in the field and work by new researchers whose work bids fair to shift the entire agenda of screen historiography. It challenges the boundaries conventionally raised between history and other areas of screen study (such as textual analysis and audience ethnography), and indeed between history and theory, and many of the contributions confirm the key role being played by theoretically sophisticated historical work in the development of film and television studies as a whole.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- PART ONE: RECEPTION HISTORIES
- 1. From Exhibition to Reception: Reflections on the Audience in Film History
- 2. Hollywood Memories
- 3. The 'Popular' Cash and Culture in the Postwar British Cinema
- PART TWO: SOCIAL HISTORIES
- 4. Scenarios of Exposure in the Practice of Everyday Life: Women in the Cinema of Attractions
- 5. The Proletarian Woman's Film of the 1930s: Contending With Censorship and Entertainment
- 6. The Married Love Affair
- PART THREE: INSTITUTIONAL HISTORIES
- 7. Copyright Protection in Theatre, Vaudeville, and Early Cinema
- 8. 'Spread Like a Monster Blanket Over the Country': CBS and Television, 1929-33
- 9. Writing the History of the American Film Industry: Warner Bros and Sound
- 10. The Disney-Fleischer Dilemma: Product Differentiation and Technological Innovation
- 11. Baby Face, or How Joe Breen Made Barbara Stanwyck Atone for Causing the Wall Street Crash
- PART FOUR: TEXTUAL HISTORIES
- 12. A Scene at the 'Movies'
- 13. Narrative/Diegesis: Thresholds, Limits
- 14. Heard Over the Phone: The Lonely Villa and the de Lorde Tradition of the Terrors of Technology
- Appendix: Screen History in Screen, 1972-1997
- Notes on Contributors
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: pbk ISBN 9780198159490
Description
Screen Histories: A `Screen' Reader offers a selection of some of the best work on the varied and changing notions of the category `history' in screen studies published in Screen in the last twenty years. The book brings together important work in this area at a time when `history' is an increasingly contested category within academic debate. It includes interventions on the conceptualization of history in studies of screen institutions,
technologies, discourses, texts, and audiences. In addition, the varied meanings of the concept of history for film and television studies in both Britain and the USA are represented and fully explored.
L The book includes contributions by established scholars in the field and work by new researchers whose work bids fair to shift the entire agenda of screen historiography. It challenges the boundaries conventionally raised between history and other areas of screen study (such as textual analysis and audience ethnography), and indeed between history and theory, and many of the contributions confirm the key role being played by theoretically sophisticated historical work in the development of
film and television studies as a whole.
Table of Contents
- PART ONE: RECEPTION HISTORIES
- PART TWO: SOCIAL HISTORIES
- PART THREE: INSTITUTIONAL HISTORIES
- PART FOUR: TEXTUAL HISTORIES
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