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Summary:

"Studies of "Classic Hollywood" typically treat Hollywood films released from 1930 to 1960 as a single interpretive mass. Veronica Pravadelli complicates this idea. Focusing on dominant tendencies in box office hits and Oscar-recognized classics, she breaks down the so-called classic period into six distinct phases that follow Hollywood's amazingly diverse offerings from the emancipated females of the "Transition Era" and the traditional men and women of the conservative 1930s that replaced it to the Fifties movie musicals and family melodramas that arose after anti-classic genres like film noir and women's films. Availing herself of the significant advances in film theory and modernity studies that have taken place since similar surveys first saw publication, Pravadelli views Hollywood through strategies as varied as close textural analysis, feminism, psychoanalysis, film style, and study of cinematic imagery, revealing the inconsistencies and antithetical traits lurking beneath Classic Hollywood's supposed transparency. The result is an ambitious, much-needed synthesis of theoretical approaches to a legendary cinematic era."--Publisher's website.

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: 1. Early Thirties: Modernity, New Women, and the Aesthetic of Attractions
• 2. Normative Desires and Visual Sobriety: Apogee of the Classical Model
• 3. Male Subject of Noir and the Modern Gaze
• 4. (Dis)Adventures of Female Desire in the 1940s Woman's Film
• 5. Excess, Spectacle, Sensation: Family Melodrama in the 1950s
• 6. Performative Bodies and Non-referential Images: Excesses of the Musical.

Author/Creator:

Pravadelli, Veronica, 1964- , author

Contributors:

Meadows, Michael Theodore , translator

Languages:

English
Italian

Language Notes:

Translated from the Italian.

Main Work:

Grande Hollywood [by Pravadelli, V.] (English)

Related Works:

Translation of: Grande Hollywood [by Pravadelli, V.]

Subjects:

Motion pictures — United States — History — 20th century

Motion pictures — Production and direction — United States — History — 20th century

Motion pictures — California — Los Angeles — History — 20th century

General Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-217) and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

PN1993.5.U6 P6713 2015

ISBNs:

9780252096730 (electronic bk.)
0252096738 (electronic bk.)
9780252038778 [Invalid]
0252038770 [Invalid]
9780252080340 [Invalid]
0252080343 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

909902066

Other Control Numbers:

760257 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp12012059