Decoding the Movies by Richard Maltby
This book decodes 1930s Hollywood movies and explains why they looked and behaved in the way they did. Organized through a series of related case studies, the book exposes Classical Hollywood movies to a detailed analysis of their historical, industrial and cultural contexts. In the process it utilizes industry data, aesthetic analysis and the insights of New Cinema History to explain why and how these movies assumed their familiar forms. The book represents the summation of Richard Maltby's four decades of scholarship in the field of Hollywood cinema. The essays presented here share an assumption that has increasingly informed the author's critical method over the years: that any historical understanding of the films of this period requires a deep contextualization in the social circumstances surrounding both their production and consumption. In this way, the book introduces an innovative, overarching research methodology that synthesizes branches of research that are typically employed in isolation, including production, distribution, reception, film aesthetics, and cultural and historical context. Of the book's nine chapters, three are presented here for the first time, and four have been substantially revised and extended from their original publication.-
The Great Art Of Light And Shadow
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Alternative Film Culture in Interwar Britain
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The Holocaust and Hollywood Studios
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Finding Birt Acres
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Going to the Movies
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Reading the Cinematograph
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The B&C Kinematograph Company and British Cinema
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Silent Features
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Picturegoers
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Screening Europe in Australasia
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The World According To Hollywood,1918-1939
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Young And Innocent?
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Multimedia Histories
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British Cinema and Middlebrow Culture in the Interwar Years
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Charles Urban
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Hollywood, Westerns And The 1930S
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The Lost Jungle
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Marketing Modernity
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The Appreciation of Film
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Celluloid War Memorials
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Bill Douglas
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Film, Cinema, Genre
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Popular Filmgoing in 1930s Britain
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The Big Show
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John Hamrick’s Blue Mouse Cinemas
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Cecil Hepworth and the Rise of the British Film Industry 1899-1911
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The Screen Censorship Companion
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A Chorus Of Raspberries
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Legitimate Cinema
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'Film Europe' and 'Film America'
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Cinema on the Front Line
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Parallel Tracks
Richard Maltby is Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor of Screen Studies at Flinders University, South Australia. He moved to Flinders from the UK, where he established the Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture at the University of Exeter, before becoming Research Professor in Film Studies at Sheffield Hallam University.
His publications include Explorations in New Cinema History: Approaches and Case Studies (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011) and Cinema, Audiences and Modernity: New Perspectives on European Cinema History (Routledge, 2011), Hollywood Cinema (Wiley-Blackwell), Dreams for Sale: Popular Culture in the Twentieth Century (Harrap). ‘Film Europe’ and ‘Film America’: Cinema, Commerce and Cultural Exchange, 1925–1939, co-edited with Andrew Higson (UEP 1999), was winner of the prestigious Prix Jean Mitry for cinema history in 2000.
He is a Series Editor of Exeter Studies in Film History.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781905816446 |
| ISBN 10 | 1905816448 |
| Title | Decoding the Movies |
| Author | Richard Maltby |
| Series | Exeter Studies In Film History |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University of Exeter Press |
| Year published | 2021-03-15 |
| Number of pages | 496 |
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