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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Eric SmoodinPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Edition: annotated edition Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 22.80cm Weight: 0.594kg ISBN: 9780822333845ISBN 10: 0822333848 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 13 January 2005 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Audiences, Film Studies, and Frank Capra 1 1. The National and the Local: Ballyhoo and the U.S. Film Audience 23 2. Regulating National Markets: Chinese Censorship and The Bitter Tea of General Yen 51 3. Film Education and Quality Entertainment for Children and Adolescents 76 4. The Business of America: Mr. Smith, John Doe, and the Politicized Viewer 119 5. Coercive Viewings: Soldiers and Prisoners Watch Movies 160 6. Politics and Pedagogy near the End of a Career: From Feature Films to Television Production 203 Conclusion: The Contemporary Capra 236 Notes 243 Bibliography 279 Index 291Reviews"""In a delightfully readable book full of personality and wit, Eric Smoodin rethinks audience and reception theory. He demonstrates that film culture extends from the settings of the movie theater and film industry to other, less obvious but equally important, sites."" Lisa Cartwright, co-author of Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture "" ... an engrossing work and one that should contribute immensely to these prominent questions of audience reception and the academic film studies agenda. It is also a book worthy of the director's contribution to American cinema and should be invaluable reading for film scholars of all persuasions.""--Jrnl of American Studies, August 2006" Regarding Frank Capra opens important new lines of inquiry concerning the historical study of movie audiences, significantly expanding how we might think about specific contexts for moviegoing and what counts as empirical evidence of reception. -Gregory A. Waller, author of Main Street Amusements: Movies and Commercial Entertainment in a Southern City, 1896-1930 In a delightfully readable book full of personality and wit, Eric Smoodin rethinks audience and reception theory. He demonstrates that film culture extends from the settings of the movie theater and film industry to other less obvious but equally important sites. -Lisa Cartwright, coauthor of Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture This wonderful book demonstrates precisely the importance of cultural reception for film studies. Breaking down the traditional boundaries between production, text, and audience, Eric Smoodin's study challenges us to think about the complexity and locatedness of the meaning of the cinema. This book combines rich historical analysis with an accessible style of delivery and an excellent feel for the changing field of American cinema studies. This is film scholarship at its best: rigorous, lively, original. -Jackie Stacey, author of Star Gazing: Hollywood Cinema and Female Spectatorship In a delightfully readable book full of personality and wit, Eric Smoodin rethinks audience and reception theory. He demonstrates that film culture extends from the settings of the movie theater and film industry to other, less obvious but equally important, sites. Lisa Cartwright, co-author of Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture ... an engrossing work and one that should contribute immensely to these prominent questions of audience reception and the academic film studies agenda. It is also a book worthy of the director's contribution to American cinema and should be invaluable reading for film scholars of all persuasions. --Jrnl of American Studies, August 2006 Author InformationEric Smoodin is Professor of American Studies at the University of California, Davis. His books include Animating Culture: Hollywood Cartoons From the Sound Era, Disney Discourse: Producing the Magic Kingdom, and Hollywood Quarterly: Film Culture in Postwar America, 1945–1957 (with Ann Martin). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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