Screen ages a survey of American cinema
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| adam_text | Contents
List of figures xii
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction: Hollywood in the screen ages 1
Now playing 1
Movies in the twenty-first century ]
The screen ages: The myth of Hollywood s “Golden Age” 4
The same movie on different screens: The event-centered approach to movie history 6
Case study 0.1: Schindler s List and Castlemont High School 8
The structure of Screen Ages 9
1. Beginnings: Multiple cinemas, multiple audiences, 1895-1907 H
Now playing 13
Vitaseopc debuts at Roster and Rial s Music Hall, New York City, April 23, 1896 13
A day at a Mutoscope peep show, St Louis, Missouri, 1900 15
The Great Train Robbery plays at the Nickelodeon theater, Pittsburgh, 1905 17
Screen ages 18
The invention of “the movies” 18
Beginnings: Pre-cinema 19
Photography and nineteenth-century screen shows 19
Eadweard Muybridge and the first movies 20
The beginnings of mass media in nineteenth-century America 21
The movies begin in America 22
Competition and diversity: Taking control of events 24
Controlling the movies: Edison and the Motion Picture Patents Company 26
In development 27
The invention of “the movies” and the first narrative genres 27
Actualities and the documentary tradition 28
Case study 1.1: From Kinetoscopes to YouTube 29
From actuality to melodrama: The Life of an American Fireman 30
Turn-of-the-century genres of gender: Muscle men and dancing girls 31
Case study 1.2: An early movie scandal: “The Kiss” 33
The names above and below the title 34
Thomas Edison and the cultlure) of invention 34
Alice Guy-Blaché and women in film 35
Edwin S, Porter and the artisanal screen age 37
Explore further 40
2. Becoming “the moxics**: The nickelodeon age, 1908-19 15 41
Now playing 41
Joseph Medill Patterson reports on “The Nickelodeons,” Saturday Livening Pos/,
November 23, 1907 41
Los Angeles nickelodeon showing of Kid Auto Races at Venice, 1914 43
Cabiria premieres at the Knickerbocker Theatre, New York City, June 1, 1914 44
Screen ages 45
A new medium for a new America 45
Growing demand and the rise oí the independents
The movies go west
In focus: Early censorship and the question oí who goes to the movies
The National Board oí Censorship and the Mutual case
ln development
Comedies, westerns, and melodramas: The genres oí the nickelodeon age
The western
Slapstick comedy
Case study 2.1: The problem of slapstick
Gender genres: The New Woman
The ñames above and below the title
Florence Lawrence and the invention of the “movie star”
D. W. Griffith
Lois Weber: Lost pioneer of early cinema
Case study 2.2: Telling stories with pictures: Lois Weber’s Suspense
Explore further
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3. Movie palaces, corner theaters, and tent shows: The silent era and the first
Hollywood, 1915-192 8
Now playing
The premiere of The Clansman, later The Birth of a Nation, at Clune’s Auditorium,
Los Angeles, February 8, 1915
Case study 3.1: To screen or not to screen - the problem of The Birth of a Nation
A typical silent bili at a small-town movie theater, 1920
Case study 3.2: “Silem” movies? The role of sound in the silent cra
A screening of The Jazz Singer at the Garrick Theatre, downtown Chicago, Decembcr 1927
Screen ages
ln the silent era: Liberation and repression
The business of the movies: The rise of the studio system and vertical Integration
Counter-reactions to vertical Integration: Star power
Liberation and repression II: Celebrity, scandal, and censorship
The MPPDA and self-censorship
In development
Melodrama
Movies as art/art movies
Erich Von Stroheim
F. W. Murnau
Genres of gender: The girl next door, the vamp, and the flapper
The names above and below the title
Mary Pickford
Oscar Micheaux and black cinema
Three giants of silent comedy: Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd
Charlie Chaplin
Buster Keaton
Harold Lloyd
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4. The studios era: Dominance and diversity in the Golden Age of
Hollywood, 1929—1948
Now playing
A pre-Code screening of The Public Enemy at the Strand Theatre, New York, 1931
A ten-year-old Martin Luther King, Jr., dressed as a plantation held hand, sings in a
black Baptist choir at the Atlanta premiere of Gone with the Wind,
December 14, 1939
A Saturday afternoon matinee, 1943
Screen ages
The movies in Depression-era America
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The studio system 107
Studio factories and house styles 108
Overview of house styles: The Big Five 108
Metro Goldwyn Mayer: Glitz and glamor 108
Case study 4.1: The Wizard of Oz and the Great Depression 110
Paramount Pictures: Polish and sophistication 1 11
Warner Brothers: Gritty realism 1 12
20th Century Fox: All-American populism 113
RKO: Variety and experimentation 1 14
The “Little Three : Universal, Columbia, and United Artists 1 16
Universal Pictures 1 16
Columbia Pictures 117
United Artists 118
Poverty Row and independent filmmaking 1 19
Hollywood and World War II 120
The trauma of war 122
Censorship and the Production Code 124
The Paramount Decision and the end of the studios era 126
In development 127
Genres of gender: Film noir, the hardboiled detective, and the femme fatale 127
Case study 4.2: The Production Code in action: The case of Double Indemnity 129
Animation in the stúdióséra 129
The names above and below the title 1 H
Orson Welles 1 3 1
Walt Disney 134
Dorothy Arzner 136
Fxplore further 139
5. I heaters, drive-ins, and living rooms: ( hanging screens, changing movies,
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Now playing 141
The premiere of The Ten Commandments at the Criterion Theatre, New York City,
November 8, 1956 141
A showing of Beach Party at a drive-in theater, 1963 143
A television episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, January 3, 1960 146
Screen ages 150
1949-1966: Conformity and contention 150
Hollywood after the Paramount Decision: Divestment and diversification 151
The rise of the agents: MCA, Universal, and diversification 152
McCarthyism, the Cold War, and the blacklist 152
Hollywood and the world 154
International influences 156
The end of the Production Code and the beginnings of the ratings system 157
In development 159
The western 159
Science fiction 161
Genres of gender in the 1950s and early 1960s: Marilyn Monroe and
James Dean/Rock Hudson and Doris Day 164
Case study 5.1: A new kind of acting: Movies and the Method 16T
The names above and below the title 168
John Ford 168
Nicholas Ray 1 70
Case study 5.2: Constructing the teenager: Images of youth in 1950s screen experiences 171
Alfred Hitchcock 172
Explore further 175
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6. Movies big and small: Art movies, blockbusters, and the new
1967-1980
Now playing
Watching Nashville at a suburban multiplex, summer 1975
A college film society screening of The Godfather, October 1976
Star Wars premieres at Mann’s Chinese Theatre, Hollywood, May 1977
Case study 6Л: Star Wars and its sources
Screen ages
The turning point
Screen experiences big and small
The ratings system
Vietnam and the end of the American empire
Getting bigger by getting smaller
Case study 6.2: Youth culture and Hollywood: The case of Easy Rider
Sequels and franchises
In development
Comedy in the 1970s: Woody Allen and Mel Brooks
Blaxploitation movies
Genres of gender: Nontraditional leading men: Dustin Hoffman, AÍ Pacino,
Dustin Hoffman
Al Pacino
Richard Drevfuss
The names above and below the title
Jane bonda
Steven Spielberg
Martin Scorsese
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7. Shopping malls, video stores, and cable TV: Movies in the franchise era,
1981-1997
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Sex, Lies, and Videotape screens at the Utah/US Film Festival, January 1989
A family watches Raiders of the Lost Ark on HBO in their home, 1984
College students watch a VHS copy of Pulp Fiction in their college dorm room, 1997
Screen ages
Opposing forces in the franchise era
The movie business in the 1980s
Movies in the 1980s and 1990s: Bigger, louder, costlier
The example of Rambo
Alternatives to the blockbuster: The rise of indie movies
Case study 7.1: What makes an indie movie an indie movie?
In development
Slasher movies
Case study 7.2: Why do we like horror movies?
John Hughes and new teen movies
Genres of gender: The bodybuilder hero
The names above and below the title
Spike Lee
Susan Seidelman, Amy Heckerhng, Martha Coolidge
Quentin Tarantino
Explore further
8. The digital era: Back to the future, 1994-present
Now playing
Titanic plays on a small screen embedded in the back of an airplane seat, 1998
Two high school students watch a VHS cassette of The Phantom Edit on a home
entertainment center, 2001
A college film student watches The Birth of a Nation on YouTube, 2010
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Screen ages 242
The digital age: A new dawn of cinema 242
Freedom and control: The push and pull of the digital age 243
Globalization, 9/11, and the movies 245
The continuing importance of DIY and indie cinema 247
From The Matrix to Her: Fear and hope for the future 250
In development 25 1
Television versus movies/television as movies 251
The comic-book movie 254
Bromances and chick flicks 256
The names above and below the title 259
Kathryn Bigelow 259
Wes Anderson 262
Lena Dunham 264
The persistence of the indie ideal 265
Gender and the movies 266
Case study 8.1: Pick a “typical” movie 266
Multiple screens/niul11pie “movies”: Kverythmg is cinema 267
Accessibility and unpredictability: Fvcryone s a moviemaker 267
Case study 8.2: The future of the movies 268
Fxplore further 269
Glossary 2~
Index 2 8
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