Forty years later, the films remain important cultural exemplars and also articulations of a powerful ideological presumption regarding law in American life.doi:10.2307/1290490David Ray PapkePapke,D.Law, Cinema, and Ideology: Hollywood Legal Films of the1950s.UCLA Law Review. 2001...
But with that achievement came a sense too that the audience for such serious work as Francis Ford Coppola’s Godfather films and Chinatown (1974), which had been intact as late as the 1970s, had fragmented beyond recomposition.Television If the Martian visitor beloved of anthropological ...
During their adolescence in the 1950s, the contemporary filmmakers Steven Spielberg and George Lucas drew their inspiration from popular science fiction B-films of the era. Classic science fiction and horror films such as Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956) and I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957)...
Ranked By 2.2K votes 567 voters 2 reranks Voting Rules Vote for your personal favorite New hollywood films, regardless of how popular or successful they were at the box office. With nearly 600 movie fans casting votes, this list of the best New Hollywood movies is sure to have something ...
One of the Hollywood Ten: Directed by Karl Francis. With Jeff Goldblum, Greta Scacchi, Ángela Molina, Christopher Fulford. Herbert Biberman struggles as a Hollywood writer and director blacklisted as one of The Hollywood Ten in the 1950s.
Sunset Boulevard, American film noir, released in 1950, that is often cited as one of Hollywood’s greatest films, especially noted for Gloria Swanson’s portrayal of a fading silent-film star. The movie is named after the iconic street that runs through
A cultural and musical analysis of film scores until the early 1960s shows the Importance of Jazz-inflected music as a powerful instrument for the construction of sexual female behaviour in Hollywood films. The frequent use of jazz-inflected musical topoi as a sign of promiscuity and prostitution...
Courtesy of INTERIORS Journal Interiorsis an Online Publication about the space between Architecture and Film, published byMehruss Jon AhiandArmen Karaoghlanian.Interiorsruns an exclusive column for ArchDaily that analyzes and diagrams films in terms of space. ...
Despite technological shortcomings, films were being produced with amazing speed in Hollywood during the 1920s. Up to eight hundred a year during that decade alone. Most of them were short, one-reel flicker-shows, but the idea of the ‘feature length film’ was beginning to gain ground. The...
of 09 1960s "Night of the Living Dead". Perhaps no decade had more seminal, acclaimed horror films than the '60s. Reflecting the social revolution of the era, the movies were edgier, featuring controversial levels of violence ("Blood Feast," "Witchfinder General") and sexuality ( "Repulsion...