The Screening of America
Movies and Values from Rocky to Rain Man
This is an original investigation of how movies have reflected and helped to shape the values of a generation. From All the President's Men to Wall Street, US films of the 1970s and 80s were a kaleidoscope of shifting values and contrasting moral viewpoints. Knowing that movies mirror the way we think we are - or would like to be - O'Brien focuses on the key values (or their absence) found in films from this period in order to see more clearly what Americans really cherished in life, and how these values have evolved or changed. Comprehensive and thought provoking, this book addresses how and why movies glamorized and portrayed certain profes…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4742-8798-2
- EAN: 9781474287982
- Produktnummer: 20698791
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 25'030 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
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Tom O'Brien worked as film critic for Commonweal and formerly chaired Humanities at the Manhattan School of Music in New York, USA.
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