Like the haggadah, the traditional "telling" of the story of the Israelites' exodus from Egypt that is read at the Passover seder, cinema offers a valuable text from which to gain an understanding of the social, political, and cultural realities of Jews in America. In an industry strongly influenced by Jewish filmmakers who made and continue to make the decisions as to which fi...(展开全部)

埃里克•高德曼，美国叶史瓦大学、美国犹太神学院（纽约）电影专业客座教授。作为一名电影学者，高德曼教授对意第绪电影、以色列电影和犹太电影都颇有研究。此外，他还是埃尔格传媒公司（专门发行犹太电影的知名影视公司）的创建者和董事长，并曾经担任犹太媒体中心的负责人。著有《视线、影像、梦想：意第绪电影的前世今生》一书。

菲利普·肯普（Philip Kemp），影评人、电影史学家，《视与听》、《完全电影》和《DVD评论》等杂志撰稿人。在莱切斯特大学和密德萨斯大学教授影视新闻学，著有《致命的天真：亚历山大·麦肯德里克电影作品》及介绍萨蒂亚吉特·雷伊的《阿普三部曲》的著作。 王扬 男，坐标麻州。信息安全专业出身，不务正业的工程师，电影爱好者。喜欢伍迪·艾伦、黑色电影和2000年前后流行的美国loser片。习惯用《七宗罪》、《提喻纽约》、《十二怒汉》、’93国配《费城故事》作背景音乐。翻译过一些罗杰·伊伯特的影评、美国独立游戏与地下漫画相关的文章。最大的梦想是和查理·考夫曼电影的女主角纠缠一生。

American Cinema/American Culture looks at the interplay between American cinema and mass culture from the 1890s to 2011. It begins with an examination of the basic narrative and stylistic features of classical Hollywood cinema. It then studies the genres of silent melodrama, the musical, American comedy, the war/combat film, film noir, the western, and the horror and science fi...(展开全部)

Ideal for Introduction to American Cinema courses, American Film History courses, and Introductory Film Appreciation courses focused on American Film, this text offers a "cultural" examination of the American movie-making industry, with particular attention paid to the economic and aesthetic institution of Hollywood.

Ideal for Introduction to American Cinema courses, American Film History courses, and Introductory Film Appreciation courses focused on American Film, this text offers a cultural examination of the American movie-making industry, with particular attention paid to the economic and aesthetic institution of Hollywood.

Representational technologies including photography, phonography, and the cinema have helped define modernity itself. Since the nineteenth century, these technologies have challenged our trust of sensory perception, given the ephemeral unprecedented parity with the eternal, and created profound temporal and spatial displacements. But current approaches to representational and c...(展开全部)

Representational technologies including photography, phonography, and the cinema have helped define modernity itself. Since the nineteenth century, these technologies have challenged our trust of sensory perception, given the ephemeral unprecedented parity with the eternal, and created profound temporal and spatial displacements. But current approaches to representational and c...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 From the Revolution to our own time, freedom has been America's strongest cultural bond and its most perilous fault line, a birthright for some Americans and a cruel mockery for others. Eric Foner takes freedom not as a timeless truth but as a value whose meaning and scope have been contested throughout American history. His sweeping narrative shows freedom to have been...(展开全部)

埃里克·方纳（Eric Foner）是美国哥伦比亚大学德威特·克林顿历史学讲座教授，当代美国最有影响力的历史学家之一。自1970年发表其成名作《自由土地、自由劳力、自由人：内战前共和党的意识形态》起，方纳在美国内战史、重建史、黑人史和政治文化史等领域中著述甚丰，成就显著。重要著述包括《汤姆・潘恩与革命时期的美国》（1976）、《内战时期的政治与意识形态》（1980）、《除了自由一无所有：黑人解放及其遗产》（1983）、《重建：美利坚未完成的革命（1863－1877）》（1988，该书获得象征美国史学界最高荣誉的班克罗夫特奖和其他学术大奖）、《美国自由的故事》（1998）和《谁拥有历史：在变化的世界中重新思考过去》（2002）。方纳是美国艺术与科学院院上和英国皇家科学院通讯院士，并分别在1993年和2000年当选为美国历史学家组织《OAH）和美国历史学...(展开全部)