In 'Celluloid Saviours', the author analyses a corpus of US films dating from the silent era that she calls film blanc. In these fantasy films, a guardian spirit with extraordinary powers suspends the ordinary, known laws of time and space, and a main character reforms himself or herself in life-changing ways. The author argues that the historical pattern of film blanc relates to the rise and fall of liberal and reform thought in US politics, specifically to conceptions of human nature as a tabula rasa. This conception is evident both in the early feature films featuring angels such as Chaplin's 'The Kid' and much later examples such as the 1980s box office hit, 'Trading Places'. She argues that this narrative tradition runs from Holly...
the sepia picture goes full colour and begins to move. In the chronological history of ...
The author of The Butler and Showdown examines 100 years of Black movies--using the struggles and tr...
Discussing the cultural systems and their commodities that circulate, shape, and maintain U.S. empir...
The emergence of the term film blanc as a category for Hollywood films is a relatively new developme...
Publisher's description: A shop girl wins a newspaper competition and is transformed overnight into ...
"Fleeting Fictions" argues that novels central to the genre of Hollywood fiction engaged with film’s...
This is the first book in English in nearly half a century to tell the full story of the internation...
Writing the Projected Image examines the nexus between American literature and popular screen media ...
Foreign Devils investigates representations of exile in Hollywood cinema from 1930 to 1956 through t...
During the late 19th century longer rolls of celluloid photographic film, and motion picture cameras...
editorial reviewedThe 1940s is considered the great era of Hollywood Christmas films. However, class...
This is a large edited collection (255+xxvii pp). My own contributions comprise a jointly written in...
This absorbing study of early 20th Century American Culture interprets the anarchic absurdity of sla...
The first book-length account of the symbolic chains that link remakes and explain their disguises, ...
Scholars have argued that silent films were a political tool during Progressive American history. Fi...
the sepia picture goes full colour and begins to move. In the chronological history of ...
The author of The Butler and Showdown examines 100 years of Black movies--using the struggles and tr...
Discussing the cultural systems and their commodities that circulate, shape, and maintain U.S. empir...
The emergence of the term film blanc as a category for Hollywood films is a relatively new developme...
Publisher's description: A shop girl wins a newspaper competition and is transformed overnight into ...
"Fleeting Fictions" argues that novels central to the genre of Hollywood fiction engaged with film’s...
This is the first book in English in nearly half a century to tell the full story of the internation...
Writing the Projected Image examines the nexus between American literature and popular screen media ...
Foreign Devils investigates representations of exile in Hollywood cinema from 1930 to 1956 through t...
During the late 19th century longer rolls of celluloid photographic film, and motion picture cameras...
editorial reviewedThe 1940s is considered the great era of Hollywood Christmas films. However, class...
This is a large edited collection (255+xxvii pp). My own contributions comprise a jointly written in...
This absorbing study of early 20th Century American Culture interprets the anarchic absurdity of sla...
The first book-length account of the symbolic chains that link remakes and explain their disguises, ...
Scholars have argued that silent films were a political tool during Progressive American history. Fi...
the sepia picture goes full colour and begins to move. In the chronological history of ...
The author of The Butler and Showdown examines 100 years of Black movies--using the struggles and tr...
Discussing the cultural systems and their commodities that circulate, shape, and maintain U.S. empir...