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The Boy At The Keyhole Watching Bombshells, Claudia Springer Feb 2013

The Boy At The Keyhole Watching Bombshells, Claudia Springer

Claudia Springer

Discusses 3 films ( Hope and Glory, Empire of the Sun, and Radio Days) that associate the Oedipal crisis with war. By placing boys at the age where they discover sexual differences, the films conflate wartime and sexual trauma.


Military Propaganda: Defense Department Films From World War Ii And Vietnam (Spanish Translation), Claudia Springer Feb 2013

Military Propaganda: Defense Department Films From World War Ii And Vietnam (Spanish Translation), Claudia Springer

Claudia Springer

No abstract provided.


Ethnocentric Circles: A Short History Of Ethnographic Film, Claudia Springer Feb 2013

Ethnocentric Circles: A Short History Of Ethnographic Film, Claudia Springer

Claudia Springer

No abstract provided.


Military Propaganda: Defense Department Films From World War Ii And Vietnam, Claudia Springer Feb 2013

Military Propaganda: Defense Department Films From World War Ii And Vietnam, Claudia Springer

Claudia Springer

No abstract provided.


Vietnam: A Television History And The Equivocal Nature Of Objectivity, Claudia Springer Feb 2013

Vietnam: A Television History And The Equivocal Nature Of Objectivity, Claudia Springer

Claudia Springer

No abstract provided.


Reporters, Women, And The Third World In 1980s Film, Claudia Springer Feb 2013

Reporters, Women, And The Third World In 1980s Film, Claudia Springer

Claudia Springer

No abstract provided.


The Seduction Of The Surface: From Alice To Crash, Claudia Springer Feb 2013

The Seduction Of The Surface: From Alice To Crash, Claudia Springer

Claudia Springer

No abstract provided.


Review Of Independent Black, Chicano, And Asian Filmmaking In Los Angeles, A Panel At The Society For Cinema Studies Conference, Summer 1982, Claudia Springer Feb 2013

Review Of Independent Black, Chicano, And Asian Filmmaking In Los Angeles, A Panel At The Society For Cinema Studies Conference, Summer 1982, Claudia Springer

Claudia Springer

No abstract provided.


Rachel Berwick: Economies Of Desire, Claudia Springer Feb 2013

Rachel Berwick: Economies Of Desire, Claudia Springer

Claudia Springer

No abstract provided.


Antiwar Film As Spectacle: Contradictions Of The Combat Sequence, Claudia Springer Feb 2013

Antiwar Film As Spectacle: Contradictions Of The Combat Sequence, Claudia Springer

Claudia Springer

No abstract provided.


How The West Was Sung: Music In The Westerns Of John Ford, Kathryn Kalinak Dec 2006

How The West Was Sung: Music In The Westerns Of John Ford, Kathryn Kalinak

Kathryn M Kalinak

James Stewart once said, "For John Ford, there was no need for dialogue. The music said it all." This lively, accessible study is the first comprehensive analysis of Ford's use of music in his iconic westerns. Encompassing a variety of critical approaches and incorporating original archival research, Kathryn Kalinak explores the director's oft-noted predilection for American folk song, hymnody, and period music. What she finds is that Ford used music as more than a stylistic gesture. In fascinating discussions of Ford's westerns--from silent-era features such as Straight Shooting and The Iron Horse to classics of the sound era such as …


Settling The Score: Music And The Classical Hollywood Film, Kathryn Kalinak Dec 1991

Settling The Score: Music And The Classical Hollywood Film, Kathryn Kalinak

Kathryn M Kalinak

Beginning with the earliest experiments in musical accompaniment carried out in the Edison Laboratories, Kathryn Kalinak uses archival material to outline the history of American music and film. Focusing on the scores of several key composers of the sound era, including Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Captain Blood, Max Steiner's The Informer, Bernard Herrmann's The Magnificent Ambersons, and David Raksin's Laura, Kalinak concludes that classical scoring conventions were designed to ensure the dominance of narrative exposition. Her analyses of contemporary work such as John Williams' The Empire Strikes Backand Basil Poledouris' RoboCopdemonstrate how the traditions of the classical era continue to influence …