R. Barton Palmer
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Hollywood's Tennessee
The Williams Films and Postwar America
University of Texas Press
A vibrant examination of Tennessee Williams’s role beyond the stage and the lasting impact of his films in postwar American culture.
- Copyright year: 2009
A Little Solitaire
John Frankenheimer and American Film
Rutgers University Press
Little Solitaire offers the only multidisciplinary critical account of Frankenheimer's oeuvre. Especially emphasized is his deep and passionate engagement with national politics and the irrepressible need of human beings to assert their rights and individuality in the face of organizations that would reduce them to silence and anonymity.
- Copyright year: 2011
Mervyn LeRoy Comes to Town
Edited by Murray Pomerance and R. Barton Palmer
Rutgers University Press
The first intensive study of Mervyn LeRoy’s work, as varied in form as it is crucial to an understanding of American cinema and American culture.
- Copyright year: 2025
An Anthology of Medieval Love Debate Poetry
Edited and translated by Barbara K. Altmann and R. Barton Palmer
University Press of Florida
After Hitchcock
Influence, Imitation, and Intertextuality
Edited by David Boyd and R. Barton Palmer
University of Texas Press
Thirteen original essays by leading film scholars reveal the richness and variety of Alfred Hitchcock’s legacy as they trace his shaping influence on particular films, filmmakers, genres, and even on film criticism.
- Copyright year: 2006
The Many Cinemas of Michael Curtiz
Edited by R. Barton Palmer and Murray Pomerance
University of Texas Press
Leading film studies scholars explore the astonishing range of Michael Curtiz, the most prolific director of studio-era Hollywood, whose nearly one hundred films include Casablanca, White Christmas, and Mildred Pierce.
- Copyright year: 2018
Cycles, Sequels, Spin-offs, Remakes, and Reboots
Multiplicities in Film and Television
Edited by Amanda Ann Klein and R. Barton Palmer
University of Texas Press
Surveying a wide range of international productions, this collection of essays by established and emerging scholars investigates the important cultural work performed by repetition, or multiplicities, in film and television.
- Copyright year: 2016
Pretty People
Movie Stars of the 1990s
Edited by Anna Everett
Rutgers University Press
In the 1990s, American civil society got upended and reordered as many social, cultural, political, and economic institutions were changed forever. Pretty People examines a wide range of Hollywood icons who reflect how stardom in that decade was transformed as the nation itself, signaling significant changes to familiar ideas about gender, race, ethnicity, age, class, sexuality, and nationality.
- Copyright year: 2012
Thinking in the Dark
Cinema, Theory, Practice
Edited by Murray Pomerance and R. Barton Palmer
Rutgers University Press
Thinking in the Dark introduces readers to twenty-one key theorists whose work has made the greatest impact on film scholarship today, including everyone from Sergei Eisenstein to Michel Foucault, from Judith Butler to André Bazin. Each chapter is written by an expert who explains a different theorist’s key ideas, then gives concrete examples of how they might be applied to both a classic film and a contemporary one. Ideal for teachers and students of film as well as contemporary and modern philosophy, critical theory and semotics, also of interest to the general reader exploring such topics.
- Copyright year: 2015
Traditions in World Cinema
Rutgers University Press
Traditions in World Cinema brings together a colorful and wide ranging collection of world cinematic traditions-national, regional, and global-all of which are in need of introduction, investigation and, in some cases, critical reassessment. The movements described range from well-known traditions such as German expressionism, Italian neorealism, French, British, and Czech new wave, and new Hollywood cinema to those of emerging significance, such as Danish Dogma, postcommunist cinema, Brazilian post-Cinema Novo, new Argentine cinema, pre-independence African film traditions, Israeli persecution films, new Iranian cinema, Hindi film songs, Chinese wenyi pian melodrama, Japanese horror, and global found-footage cinema.
- Copyright year: 2006
Shot on Location
Postwar American Cinema and the Exploration of Real Place
Rutgers University Press
Renowned film scholar R. Barton Palmer explores the historical, ideological, economic, and technical developments that led Hollywood filmmakers of the late 1940s and 1950s to increasingly head outside the studio and capture footage of real places. Examining works ranging from Sunset Blvd. to The Searchers, Shot on Location discovers the massive influence that wartime newsreels had on the postwar Hollywood film, as the blurring of the formal boundaries between cinematic journalism and fiction lent a “reality effect” to otherwise implausible stories.
- Copyright year: 2016
Autism in Film and Television
On the Island
Edited by Murray Pomerance and R. Barton Palmer
University of Texas Press
An essay collection reckons with pop-cultural depictions of autism.
- Copyright year: 2022
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