Peter Lev
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Twentieth Century-Fox
The Zanuck-Skouras Years, 1935–1965
By Peter Lev
University of Texas Press
This sweeping and vivid history presents the innovative studio from its initial merger to the enormous success of The Sound of Music, combining film analysis with the interconnected histories of the studio, its executives, and the industry at large.
- Copyright year: 2013
American Films of the 70s
Conflicting Visions
By Peter Lev
University of Texas Press
Peter Lev persuasively argues in this book that the films of the 1970s constitute a kind of conversation about what American society is and should be--open, diverse, and egalitarian, or stubbornly resistant to change.
- Copyright year: 2000
The Euro-American Cinema
By Peter Lev
University of Texas Press
This literate and lively study explores the spread of American culture into international cinema as reflected by the collision and partial merger of two important styles of filmmaking: the Hollywood style of stars, genres, and action, and the European art
- Copyright year: 1993
American Cinema of the 1970s
Themes and Variations
Edited by Lester D. Friedman
Rutgers University Press
A smug glance at the seventies—the so-called "Me Decade"—unveils a kaleidoscope of big hair, blaring music, and broken politics—all easy targets for satire, cynicism, and ultimately even nostalgia. The contributors to this volume look beyond the strobe lights to reveal how profoundly the seventies have influenced American life and how the films of that decade represent a peak moment in cinema history. Bringing together ten original essays, American Cinema of the 1970s examines the range of films that marked the decade, including Jaws, Rocky, Love Story, Shaft, Dirty Harry,The Godfather, Deliverance, The Exorcist, Shampoo, Taxi Driver, Star Wars, Saturday Night Fever, Kramer vs. Kramer, and Apocalypse Now.
- Copyright year: 2007