Fifty Key American Films (Routledge Key Guides)

White, J and Haenni, S (eds)

ISBN 10: 0415772974 / ISBN 13: 9780415772976

Published by Routledge (Taylor and Francis Group), 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fifty Key American Films (Routledge Key Guides)
• Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis Group)
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415772974
• ISBN 13: 9780415772976
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Fair
• Seller catalogs:
  • Entertainment & Film

About this title

Synopsis

Fifty Key American Films explores and contextualises some of the most important films ever made in the United States. With case studies from the early years of cinema to the present day, this comprehensive Key Guide provides accessible analyses from a range of theoretical perspectives.

This chronologically ordered volume includes coverage of:

• Citizen Kane
• Casablanca
• Psycho
• Taxi Driver
• Blade Runner
• Pulp Fiction

Amongst a raft of well-known films, the work of some of America’s best known directors, such as Lynch, Scorsese, Coppola and Scott, is discussed. This book is essential reading for students of film, and will be of interest to anyone seeking to explore the impact of American cinema.

About the Author

John White is teacher of Film, English and Media at Parkside Community College and Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge. He is co-author of AS Film Studies: The Essential Introduction, A2 Film Studies: The Essential Introduction, and co-editor of Fifty Key British Films, also published by Routledge.

Sabine Haenni teaches Film and American Studies at Cornell University. She is the author of The Immigrant Scene: Ethnic Amusements in New York 1880-1920 and has published widely on popular theatre, early cinema and realist fiction.