American Cinema of the 1990s: Themes and Variations (Screen Decades) (Screen Decades: American Culture/American Cinema) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813543657 ISBN 13: 9780813543659

Publisher: Rutgers University Press, 2008

Synopsis

With the U.S. economy booming under President Bill Clinton and the cold war finally over, many Americans experienced peace and prosperity in the nineties. Digital technologies gained popularity, with nearly one billion people online by the end of the decade. The film industry wondered what the effect on cinema would be. The essays in American Cinema of the 1990s examine the big-budget blockbusters and critically acclaimed independent films that defined the decade. The 1990s' most popular genre, action, channeled anxieties about global threats such as AIDS and foreign terrorist attacks into escapist entertainment movies. Horror films and thrillers were on the rise, but family-friendly pictures and feel-good romances netted big audiences too. Meanwhile, independent films captured hearts, engaged minds, and invaded Hollywood: by decade's end every studio boasted its own ""art film"" affiliate.

About this title

Review:

"There is nothing like this series. Screen Decades firmly situates American cinema in the realms of material culture, popular culture, cultural narrative, reception analysis, and industrial history."

--American Quarterly

Synopsis:

Features essays that examine the big-budget blockbusters and critically acclaimed independent films defined the decade of the nineties.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0813543657
• ISBN 13: 9780813543659
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Chris Holmlund