This provocative three-volume encyclopedia is a valuable resource for readers seeking an understanding of how movies have both reflected and helped engender America's political, economic, and social history.
Acknowledgments Introduction Films Ali Alien All about Eve All Quiet on the Western Front All the King's Men American Graffiti American in Paris, An Angels with Dirty Faces Annie Hall Apocalypse Now Badlands Bambi Batman Battleship Potemkin Best Years of Our Lives, The Big Big Chill, The Big Heat, The Big Parade, The Big Sleep, The Birth of a Nation, The Blade Runner Blair Witch Project, The Blue Velvet Bond Films, The Bonnie and Clyde Bowling for Columbine Boys in the Band, The Boyz N' the Hood Breakfast Club, The Breaking Away Breathless Bridge on the River Kwai, The Brokeback Mountain Bulworth Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Caddyshack Carnal Knowledge Casablanca Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Chinatown Cinderella Citizen Kane City Lights Cleopatra Clockwork Orange, A Clueless Conversation, The Cool Hand Luke Crash (1996) Crash (2004) Crying Game, The Dances with Wolves Days of Wine and Roses Dead Poets Society Deer Hunter, The Deliverance Die Hard Dirty Dancing Dirty Harry Do the Right Thing Double Indemnity Dr. Strangelove Driving Miss Daisy Duck Soup E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial East of Eden Easy Rider Erin Brockovich Exorcist, The Fahrenheit 451 Fail-Safe Falling Down Fargo Fast Times at Ridgemont High Fatal Attraction Ferris Bueller's Day Off Few Good Men, A Fiddler on the Roof Finding Nemo Flags of Our Fathers 400 Blows, The Frankenstein French Connection, The Friday the 13th Front, The Full Metal Jacket Gattaca General, The Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Giant Gladiator Glory Godfather Trilogy, The Going My Way Goldfinger Gone with the Wind Goodfellas Graduate, The Grapes of Wrath, The Grease Great Dictator, The Great Escape, The Great Train Robbery, The Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Halloween Harold and Maude Harry Potter Series, The Heaven's Gate High Noon Hoop Dreams How Green Was My Valley In the Company of Men In the Heat of the Night Independence Day Indiana Jones Insider, The Interiors Intolerance Invasion of the Body Snatchers Iron Man It Happened One Night It's a Wonderful Life Jaws Jazz Singer, The Jerry Maguire JFK Judgment at Nuremberg Jurassic Park Karate Kid, The Killing Fields, The L.A. Confidential Land Beyond the Sunset, The Last Picture Show, The Lean on Me Left Handed Gun, The Lethal Weapon Letters from Iwo Jima Lion King, The Little Big Man Lord of the Rings, The Lost in Translation Love Story Magnificent Ambersons, The Magnificent Seven, The Malcolm X Maltese Falcon, The Manchurian Candidate, The Manhattan Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, The Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Mary Poppins M*A*S*H Matrix Series, The McCabe and Mrs. Miller Meet Me in St. Louis Memento Metropolis Midnight Cowboy Million Dollar Baby Miracle on 34th Street Modern Times Moulin Rouge! Mr. Deeds Goes to Town Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Music Man, The My Darling Clementine My Man Godfrey Nixon No Country for Old Men Officer and a Gentleman, An On the Waterfront Ordinary People Paper Chase, The Passion of the Christ, The Philadelphia Philadelphia Story, The Piano, The Pillow Talk Place in the Sun, A Planet of the Apes Platoon Postman Always Rings Twice, The Pretty Woman Pride of the Yankees, The Producers, The Psycho Pulp Fiction Quiet Man, The Rebel Without a Cause Rio Bravo Risky Business Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Roger & Me Rosemary's Baby Saving Private Ryan Scarface: The Shame of a Nation (1932) Schindler's List Searchers, The Serpico Sex, Lies, and Videotape Shadows Shaft Shane Shawshank Redemption, The Shining, The Shrek Series, The Silence of the Lambs, The Singin' in the Rain Singles Sixteen Candles Sixth Sense, The Sleepless in Seattle Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Sound of Music, The Splendor in the Grass Stagecoach Star Trek Series, The Star Wars Series, The Streetcar Named Desire, A Sullivan's Travels Sunset Blvd. Superman: The Movie Taxi Driver Terminator Series, The Thelma and Louise Third Man, The Three Kings Titanic To Kill a Mockingbird Top Gun Touch of Evil Toy Story Traffic 12 Angry Men 2001: A Space Odyssey Unforgiven Vertigo Waiting for Guffman Way We Were, The West Side Story When Harry Met Sally White Christmas Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Wild Bunch, The Winchester '73 Witness Wizard of Oz, The Woman of the Year Working Girl Yankee Doodle Dandy People Allen, Dede Allen, Woody Altman, Robert Arzner, Dorothy Ashby, Hal Astaire, Fred Beatty, Warren Bergman, Ingrid Berkeley, Busby Berry, Halle Bigelow, Kathryn Bogdanovich, Peter Borden, Lizzie Brando, Marlon Brooks, Mel Burton, Tim Cagney, James Campion, Jane Capra, Frank Carpenter, John Cassavetes, John Chaplin, Charlie Chayefsky, Paddy Coen, Joel and Ethan Colbert, Claudette Coppola, Francis Ford Corman, Roger Costner, Kevin Cukor, George Curtiz, Michael DeMille, Cecil B. De Niro, Robert Deren, Maya Disney, Walt Donner, Richard Duras, Marguerite Eastwood, Clint Ebert, Roger Edison, Thomas Alva Eisenstein, Sergei Ephron, Nora Fairbanks, Douglas, Sr. Fleming, Victor Flynn, Errol Ford, John Foster, Jodie Frankenheimer, John Friedkin, William Gable, Clark Garbo, Greta Gibson, Mel Gish, Lillian Grant, Cary Grier, Pam Griffith, D.?W. Hawks, Howard Heckerling, Amy Hepburn, Katharine Heston, Charlton Hill, George Roy Hitchcock, Alfred Hopper, Dennis Huston, John Kasdan, Lawrence Kazan, Elia Keaton, Buster Keaton, Diane Kubrick, Stanley Lang, Fritz Laurel and Hardy Lee, Ang Lee, Spike Lewis, Jerry Lloyd, Harold Lucas, George Lumet, Sidney Lumière, Auguste and Louis Lupino, Ida Lynch, David Mann, Michael Marx Brothers, The May, Elaine McDaniel, Hattie Méliès, Georges Micheaux, Oscar Miller, Arthur Monroe, Marilyn Moore, Michael Mulvey, Laura Murnau, F.?W. Muybridge, Eadweard Newman, Paul Nichols, Mike Nicholson, Jack Pacino, Al Peckinpah, Sam Penn, Arthur Pickford, Mary Poitier, Sidney Polanski, Roman Pollack, Sydney Preminger, Otto Ray, Nicholas Robeson, Paul Sarris, Andrew Schoonmaker, Thelma Scorsese, Martin Scott, Ridley Sinatra, Frank Singleton, John Spielberg, Steven Stone, Oliver Streisand, Barbra Sturges, John Sturges, Preston Tarantino, Quentin Taylor, Elizabeth Towne, Robert Truffaut, François Valentino, Rudolph Van Peebles, Melvin Varda, Agnès Vidor, King Von Stroheim, Erich Washington, Denzel Waters, John Wayne, John Weber, Lois Welles, Orson Wenders, Wim Wilder, Billy Williams, John Wyler, William Zanuck, Darryl Subjects Academy Awards, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) Action-Adventure Film, The African Americans in Film Ancient World in Film, The Animation Auteur Theory Biblical Epic, The Blackface Cannes Film Festival, The Cinéma Vérité Cinematography Color Coming-of-Age Film, The Committee on Public Information, The Documentary, The Drive-in Theaters Early Movie Houses Ethnic and Immigrant Culture Cinema Feminist Film Criticism Film Criticism Film Editing Film Noir French New Wave Gangster Film, The German Expressionism Hard-Boiled Detective Film, The Hays Office and Censorship, The Hollywood Blacklist, The HUAC Hearings, The Independent Film, The Intellectual Montage Italian Neorealism Judaism and Film Kuleshov Effect, The Male Gaze, The Melodrama, The Method Acting Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA) Movie Star, The Music in Film Musical, The Native Americans in Film New Technologies in Film Nickelodeon Era, The Politics and Film Product Placements Product Tie-Ins Religion and Censorship in Film Religion and Nationalism in Film Representations of Disability in Film Romantic Comedy, The Science and Politics in Film Science Fiction Film, The Screen Actors Guild Screenplay and the Screenwriter, The Silent Era, The Slasher Films Social Movements and Film Sound Sports Film, The Studio System, The Sundance Film Festival, The Superhero in Film, The Television War Film, The Western, The Women in Film Index About the Editor List of Contributors
Philip C. DiMare is a lecturer in the departments of Humanities and Religious Studies and History at California State University, Sacramento, CA.
With its particular context, and with contributors coming from a
variety of backgrounds, including history, religion, science, and
politics as well as film, this resource offers an interesting angle
on the study of film. Recommended for large public libraries and
for college libraries supporting film and popularculture
programs.
*Booklist*
With its particular context, and with contributors coming from a variety of backgrounds, including history, religion, science, and politics as well as film, this resource offers an interesting angle on the study of film. Recommended for large public libraries and for college libraries supporting film and popularculture programs. * Booklist *
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