Interpreting Films : : Studies in the Historical Reception of American Cinema /

Interpreting Films : : Studies in the Historical Reception of American Cinema / / Janet Staiger.

Employing a wide range of examples from Uncle Tom's Cabin and Birth of a Nation to Zelig and Personal Best, Janet Staiger argues that a historical examination of spectators' responses to films can make a valuable contribution to the history, criticism, and philosophy of cultural products....

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Staiger, Janet,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©1992
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (290 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures and Sources
  • Preface
  • PART ONE: THEORETICAL CONCERNS
  • Chapter One The Use-Value of Reception Studies
  • Chapter Two Reception Studies in Other Disciplines
  • Chapter Three Reception Studies in Film and Television
  • Chapter Four Toward a Historical Materialist Approach to Reception Studies
  • PART TWO: STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF THE RECEPTION OF AMERICAN FILMS
  • Chapter Five Rethinking "Primitive" Cinema: Intertextuality, the Middle-Class Audience, and Reception Studies
  • Chapter Six 'The Handmaiden of Villainy": Foolish Wives, Politics, Gender Orientation, and the Other
  • Chapter Seven The Birth of a Nation: Reconsidering Its Reception
  • Chapter Eight The Logic of Alternative Readings: A Star Is Born
  • Chapter Nine With the Compliments of the Auteur: Art Cinema and the Complexities of Its Reading Strategies
  • Chapter Ten Chameleon in the Film, Chameleons in the Audience; or, Where Is Parody? The Case ofZelig
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index

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