{"product_id":"9780367365110","title":"Screening American Film","description":"\u003ch3\u003eScreening Cinema\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eScreening American Film\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch3\u003eNessa Johnston | Gary Needham\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePerforming Arts \/ Film \/ History \u0026amp; Criticism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBringing together 51 essays, each devoted to a single American film, \u003ci\u003eScreening American Film\u003c\/i\u003e offers a wide-ranging exploration of the histories, practices, politics, styles, and meanings that have shaped American film since the 1930s. While this volume proceeds decade by decade from the 1930s onward, contributors reach further back and forward to illuminate the breadth and complexity of the American screen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eComplemented by the volumes on \u003ci\u003eScreening American Independent Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e (2023) and \u003ci\u003eScreening Classical Hollywood Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e (forthcoming), in these 51 chapters readers will encounter American cinema not as a singular tradition but as a constellation of overlapping and often competing practices, modes, and priorities: classical and post-classical Hollywood, major blockbusters, independent and indie filmmaking, exploitation and arthouse. The essays draw upon a variety of critical frameworks including the industrial, aesthetic, historical, political, and thematic while remaining attentive to key questions of style, genre, authorship, performance, stardom, and context.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe central aim of \u003ci\u003eScreening American Film\u003c\/i\u003e is to complement the viewing and teaching of American cinema in film and screen studies classrooms, across related disciplines, and to reshape notions of canon. Each essay has been designed to stand on its own while contributing to a larger mosaic of what American film has been, and what it continues to become, from Mae West to Barbie. Written to support film screenings and teaching, every film discussed here is available for viewing, in one format or another, even if it lies outside the conventional structures of platform-era film consumption. Indeed, part of this book’s ambition is to highlight American films whose significance becomes newly visible in the revisitation of established \"classics\", sitting aside the lesser known, and in some cases, entirely un-mapped cinematic terrain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 51 entries introduce students to different approaches within film studies from historical and contextual framing, film analysis, industrial and institutional analysis, politics and ideology, genre and authorship, film theory, representation, exhibition and reception, and technology. \u003ci\u003eScreening American Film\u003c\/i\u003e is the essential resource for anyone teaching or studying American film.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNessa Johnston \u003c\/b\u003eis Lecturer in Screen Studies and Digital Media at the University of Liverpool, author of\u003ci\u003e The Commitments: Youth, Music and Authenticity in 1990s Ireland \u003c\/i\u003e(Routledge 2022), and co-editor with Jamie Sexton and Elodie Roy of \u003ci\u003eAnonymous Sounds: Library Music and Screen Cultures in the 1960s and 1970s \u003c\/i\u003e(2025). She has published widely on low-budget filmmaking, American independent cinema, film sound and music, and cult cinema, including in the journals\u003ci\u003e Continuum\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e Music, Sound and the Moving Image\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e The Soundtrack\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e The Velvet Light Trap\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eAlphaville.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGary Needham\u003c\/b\u003e is Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies at the University of Liverpool. They are the author or co-editor of several books, including\u003ci\u003e Asian Cinemas\u003c\/i\u003e (2006), \u003ci\u003eQueer TV\u003c\/i\u003e (2009), \u003ci\u003eBrokeback Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e (2010), \u003ci\u003eWarhol in Ten Takes\u003c\/i\u003e (2013), and \u003ci\u003eUnited Artists\u003c\/i\u003e (2020). They are also series editor of both Routledge’s\u003ci\u003e Screening Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e and, with Yannis Tzioumakis, \u003ci\u003eThe Routledge Hollywood Centenary\u003c\/i\u003e. Their forthcoming books are \u003ci\u003eSex, Guys, and Videotape\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003ci\u003eAmerican Independent Cinema and the AIDS Crisis\u003c\/i\u003e, a co-authored \u003ci\u003eQueer Film Classics\u003c\/i\u003e on the first AIDS film \u003ci\u003eBuddies\u003c\/i\u003e, and a co-edited collection on the filmmaker Andrew Haigh.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e30 October 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eTaylor \u0026amp; Francis\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eRoutledge\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9780367365110\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e504\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e40.25\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63582730092684,"sku":"9780367365110","price":210.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9780367365110","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}