Screen Histories A "Screen" Reader

by Kuhn, Annette; Stacey, Jackie

• ISBN13: 9780198159469
• ISBN10: 0198159463
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-04-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Screen Histories: A Reader offers a selection of some of the best work on the varied and changing notions of the category 'history' in screen studies published in Screen in the last twenty years. The book brings together important work in this area at a time when 'history' is an increasinglycontested category within academic debate. It includes interventions on the conceptualization of history in studies of screen institutions, technologies, discourses, texts, and audiences. In addition, the varied meanings of the concept of history for film and television studies in both Britain andthe USA are represented and fully explored. The book includes contributions by established scholars in the field and work by new researchers whose work bids fair to shift the entire agenda of screen historiography. It challenges the boundaries conventionally raised between history and other areas of screen study (such as textual analysis andaudience ethnography), and indeed between history and theory, and many of the contributions confirm the key role being played by theoretically sophisticated historical work in the development of film and television studies as a whole.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Reception Histories

From Exhibition to Reception: Reflections on the Audience in Film History

Hollywood Memories

The `Popular' Cash and Culture in the Postwar British Cinema

Social Histories

Scenarios of Exposure in the Practice of Everyday Life, Constance Balides

The Proletarian Woman's Film of the 1930s: Contending With Censorship and Entertainment

The Married Love Affair

Institutional Histories

Copyright Protection in Theatre, Vaudeville, and Early Cinema

`Spread Like a Monster Blanket Over the Country': CBS and Television, 1929-33

Writing the History of the American Film Industry: Warner Bros and Sound

The Disney-Fleischer Dilemma: Product Differentiation and Technological Innovation

Baby Face, or How Joe Breen Made Barbara Stanwyck Atone for Causing the Wall Street Crash

Textual Histories

A Scene at the `Movies'

Narrative/Diegesis: Thresholds, Limits

Heard Over the Phone: The Lonely Villa and the de Lorde Tradition of the Terrors of Technology

Appendix: Screen History in Screen, 1972-1997

Notes on Contributors

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