The Films of the Eighties - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Films of the Eighties write by William J. Palmer. This book was released on 1995. The Films of the Eighties available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this remarkable sequel to his Films of the Seventies: A Social History, William J. Palmer examines more than three hundred films as texts that represent, revise, parody, comment upon, and generate discussion about major events, issues, and social trends of the eighties. Palmer defines the dialectic between film art and social history, taking as his theoretical model the "holograph of history" that originated from the New Historicist theories of Hayden White and Dominick LaCapra. Combining the interests and methodologies of social history and film criticism, Palmer contends that film is a socially conscious interpreter and commentator upon the issues of contemporary social history. In the eighties, such issues included the war in Vietnam, the preservation of the American farm, terrorism, nuclear holocaust, changes in Soviet-American relations, neoconservative feminism, and yuppies. Among the films Palmer examines are Platoon, The Killing Fields, The River, Out of Africa, Little Drummer Girl, Kiss of the Spiderwoman, Silkwood, The Day After, Red Dawn, Moscow on the Hudson, Troop Beverly Hills, and Fatal Attraction. Utilizing the principles of New Historicism, Palmer demonstrates that film can analyze and critique history as well as present it.
Life Moves Pretty Fast
Life Moves Pretty Fast - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Life Moves Pretty Fast write by Hadley Freeman. This book was released on 2016-06-14. Life Moves Pretty Fast available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "An earlier edition of this work was published in Great Britain in 2015."--Title page verso.
LIFE Movies of the 1980s
LIFE Movies of the 1980s - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook LIFE Movies of the 1980s write by The Editors of LIFE. This book was released on 2017-10-27. LIFE Movies of the 1980s available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Travel back to the future with dozens of 1980s favorites Before the internet, in the days of Rubik's Cubes, the Iran-Contra scandal, and Wall Street's booms and busts, movies captured the spirit of our times. Now you can revisit those great films with LIFE Movies of the 1980s, packed with glowing photos and behind-the-scenes stories from the pages of Life magazine.
The Movies of the Eighties
The Movies of the Eighties - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Movies of the Eighties write by Ron Base. This book was released on 1990. The Movies of the Eighties available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Celebrating the golden decade of films and film-making, this is an introduction to the stars, directors and producers who have shaped the 80s. The authors reveal how Hollywood has made more movies than at any other time since the 30s and 40s and has shattered many box office records.
Make My Day
Make My Day - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Make My Day write by J. Hoberman. This book was released on 2019-07-02. Make My Day available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Named a Best Book of the Year by Financial Times "Singular, stylish and slightly intoxicating in its scope." —Rolling Stone Acclaimed media critic J. Hoberman's masterful and majestic exploration of the Reagan years as seen through the unforgettable movies of the era The third book in a brilliant and ambitious trilogy, celebrated cultural and film critic J. Hoberman's Make My Day is a major new work of film and pop culture history. In it he chronicles the Reagan years, from the waning days of the Watergate scandal when disaster films like Earthquake ruled the box office to the nostalgia of feel-good movies like Rocky and Star Wars, and the delirium of the 1984 presidential campaign and beyond. Bookended by the Bicentennial celebrations and the Iran-Contra affair, the period of Reagan's ascendance brought such movie events as Jaws, Apocalypse Now, Blade Runner, Ghostbusters, Blue Velvet, and Back to the Future, as well as the birth of MTV, the Strategic Defense Initiative, and the Second Cold War. An exploration of the synergy between American politics and popular culture, Make My Day is the concluding volume of Hoberman's Found Illusions trilogy; the first volume, The Dream Life, was described by Slate's David Edelstein as "one of the most vital cultural histories I've ever read"; Film Comment called the second, An Army of Phantoms, "utterly compulsive reading." Reagan, a supporting player in Hoberman's previous volumes, here takes center stage as the peer of Indiana Jones and John Rambo, the embodiment of a Hollywood that, even then, no longer existed.
