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Screening America

Author: James J Lorence

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-11-03

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1315510278

By combining the study of films with the text-based primary sources, Screening America gives students clear guidance in studying, interpreting, and understanding the motion picture's significance as a primary source in investigating U.S. History.Students will come to understand history as not only the record of what governments did, but also the way in which people lived their lives, experienced the wider world, and engaged in leisure pursuits, from which we can learn much about the society in which they lived.

The Screening of America

Author: Tom O'Brien

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2016-10-06

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1474287980

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This is an original investigation of how movies have reflected and helped to shape the values of a generation. From All the President's Men to Wall Street, US films of the 1970s and 80s were a kaleidoscope of shifting values and contrasting moral viewpoints. Knowing that movies mirror the way we think we are – or would like to be – O'Brien focuses on the key values (or their absence) found in films from this period in order to see more clearly what Americans really cherished in life, and how these values have evolved or changed. Comprehensive and thought provoking, this book addresses how and why movies glamorized and portrayed certain professions; the changing role of women; the targeting of religion for satire; the addressing of environmental issues and film's representation of and engagement with history.

Screening Reality

Author: Jon Wilkman

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2020-02-18

Total Pages: 521

ISBN-13: 1635571057

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“A towering achievement, and a volume I know I'll be consulting on a regular basis.”-Leonard Maltin "Authoritative, accessible, and elegantly written, Screening Reality is the history of American documentary film we have been waiting for." --Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times film critic From Edison to IMAX, Ken Burns to virtual environments, the first comprehensive history of American documentary film and the remarkable men and women who changed the way we view the world. Amidst claims of a new “post-truth” era, documentary filmmaking has experienced a golden age. Today, more documentaries are made and widely viewed than ever before, illuminating our increasingly fraught relationship with what's true in politics and culture. For most of our history, Americans have depended on motion pictures to bring the realities of the world into view. And yet the richly complex, ever-evolving relationship between nonfiction movies and American history is virtually unexplored. Screening Reality is a widescreen view of how American “truth” has been discovered, defined, projected, televised, and streamed during more than one hundred years of dramatic change, through World Wars I and II, the dawn of mass media, the social and political turmoil of the sixties and seventies, and the communications revolution that led to a twenty-first century of empowered yet divided Americans. In the telling, professional filmmaker Jon Wilkman draws on his own experience, as well as the stories of inventors, adventurers, journalists, entrepreneurs, artists, and activists who framed and filtered the world to inform, persuade, awe, and entertain. Interweaving American and motion picture history, and an inquiry into the nature of truth on screen, Screening Reality is essential and fascinating reading for anyone looking to expand an understanding of the American experience and today's truth-challenged times.

Screening America

Author: Marlette Rebhorn

Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13:

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Using films to spark student interest in the past and encourage them to write about what really interests them is particularly appropriate as teachers confront a student population more visually than print oriented. This book sets key films in historical context, critiques them for accuracy, and relates material in the film to developments in American History. Instructor's guides provide suggested writing topics and relevant bibliography for students based on information presented in the film.

Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film

Author: Allyson Nadia Field

Publisher: Duke University Press Books

Published: 2019-11-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781478004141

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Although overlooked by most narratives of American cinema history, films made for purposes outside of theatrical entertainment dominated twentieth-century motion picture production. This volume adds to the growing study of nontheatrical films by focusing on the ways filmmakers developed and audiences encountered ideas about race, identity, politics, and community outside the borders of theatrical cinema. The contributors to Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film examine the place and role of race in educational films, home movies, industry and government films, anthropological films, and church films as well as other forms of nontheatrical filmmaking. From filmic depictions of Native Americans and films by 1920s African American religious leaders to a government educational film about the unequal treatment of Latin American immigrants, these films portrayed—for various purposes and intentions—the lives of those who were mostly excluded from the commercial films being produced in Hollywood. This volume is more than an examination of a broad swath of neglected twentieth-century filmmaking; it is a reevaluation of basic assumptions about American film culture and the place of race within it. Contributors. Crystal Mun-hye Baik, Jasmyn R. Castro, Nadine Chan, Mark Garrett Cooper, Dino Everett, Allyson Nadia Field, Walter Forsberg, Joshua Glick, Tanya Goldman, Marsha Gordon, Noelle Griffis, Colin Gunckel, Michelle Kelley, Todd Kushigemachi, Martin L. Johnson, Caitlin McGrath, Elena Rossi-Snook, Laura Isabel Serna, Jacqueline Najuma Stewart, Dan Streible, Lauren Tilton, Noah Tsika, Travis L. Wagner, Colin Williamson

Panel to the Screen

Author: Drew Morton

Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

Published: 2016-11-28

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 1496809815

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Over the past forty years, American film has entered into a formal interaction with the comic book. Such comic book adaptations as Sin City, 300, and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World have adopted components of their source materials' visual style. The screen has been fractured into panels, the photographic has given way to the graphic, and the steady rhythm of cinematic time has evolved into a far more malleable element. In other words, films have begun to look like comics. Yet, this interplay also occurs in the other direction. In order to retain cultural relevancy, comic books have begun to look like films. Frank Miller's original Sin City comics are indebted to film noir while Stephen King's The Dark Tower series could be a Sergio Leone spaghetti western translated onto paper. Film and comic books continuously lean on one another to reimagine their formal attributes and stylistic possibilities. In Panel to the Screen, Drew Morton examines this dialogue in its intersecting and rapidly changing cultural, technological, and industrial contexts. Early on, many questioned the prospect of a "low" art form suited for children translating into "high" art material capable of drawing colossal box office takes. Now the naysayers are as quiet as the queued crowds at Comic-Cons are massive. Morton provides a nuanced account of this phenomenon by using formal analysis of the texts in a real-world context of studio budgets, grosses, and audience reception.

Update in Cancer Screening, An Issue of Medical Clinics of North America, E-Book

Author: Robert A. Smith

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2020-10-28

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 0323789544

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This issue of Medical Clinics, guest edited by Dr. Robert A. Smith and Dr. Kevin Oeffinger, is devoted to Cancer Screening and Prevention. Articles in this important issue cover the development of cancer screening guidelines, implementing cancer screening in the clinical setting, and screening for colorectal, lung, cervical, prostate, skin, and ovarian cancer.

Screening Irish-America

Author: Ruth Barton

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13:

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Screening Irish-America is a major work in Irish-American screen studies. Sourced largely from papers delivered at the conference of the same name at University College Dublin and Boston College in the US in 2007, the book contains contributions by leading scholars in the field. Essays range from early and silent cinema through to recent television shows such as Scrubs. Topics include John Ford, the Irish-American gangster, Irish-American stars and the representation of the Scots-Irish and religion. Drawing on theories of ethnicity, gender, class and diaspora studies, this is the first publication in this academic area.

Through a Screen Darkly

Author: Martha Bayles

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2014-01-21

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0300123388

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Why it is a mistake to let commercial entertainment serve as America's de facto ambassador to the world

Imaging and Cancer Screening, An Issue of Radiologic Clinics of North America, E-Book

Author: Dushyant V Sahani

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2017-10-16

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 0323549004

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This issue of Radiologic Clinics of North America focuses on Imaging and Cancer Screening, and is edited by Dr. Dushyant Sahani. Articles will include: Imaging and Screening of Thyroid Cancer; Imaging and Screening of Lung Cancer; Imaging and Screening of Breast Cancer; Imaging and Screening of Liver Cancer; Imaging and Screening of Cancer of the Gall Bladder and Bile Ducts; Imaging and Screening of Pancreatic Cancer; Imaging and Screening of Kidney Cancer; Imaging and Screening of Cancer of the Small Bowel; Imaging and Screening of Colon Cancer; Imaging and Screening of Ovarian Cancer; Imaging and Screening of Genetic Syndromes; and more!