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  • Charlot

    Charlie Chaplin, France, and Transnational Stardom

    by Melvyn Stokes ...
    The first films made by British comedian Charlie Chaplin in California reached France in March 1915. They had an instant appeal for wartime French audiences-- "Charlot," the name under which Chaplin became known in France, quickly became a screen celebrity and a focal point for France's burgeoning film culture. His supporters ranged from members of the working-class through film writers such as ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • D.W. Griffith's the Birth of a Nation

    A History of the Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time

    by Melvyn Stokes ...
    In this deeply researched and vividly written volume, Melvyn Stokes illuminates the origins, production, reception and continuing history of this ground-breaking, aesthetically brilliant, and yet highly controversial movie. By going back to the original archives, particularly the NAACP and D. W. Griffith Papers, Stokes explodes many of the myths surrounding The Birth of a Nation (1915). Yet the ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Cinema Memories

    A People's History of Cinema-going in 1960s Britain

    by Melvyn Stokes, Matthew Jones, Emma Pett ...
    Cinema Memories brings together and analyses the memories of almost a thousand people of going to the cinema in Britain during the 1960s. It offers a fresh perspective on the social, cultural and film history of what has come to be seen as an iconic decade, with the release of films such as A Taste of Honey, The Sound of Music, Darling, Blow-Up, Alfie, The Graduate, and Bonnie and Clyde.Drawing on ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Hollywood Abroad

    Audiences and Cultural Exchange

    by Melvyn Stokes, Richard Maltby ...
    Hollywood Abroad is the first book to examine the reception of Hollywood movies by non-American audiences. Although numerous books on film history have analyzed the ways in which American films came to dominate world markets, there has so far been very little published work on how audiences outside the United States have responded to Hollywood-produced films. Hollywood Abroad explores the ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • D.W. Griffith's the Birth of a Nation

    A History of the Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time

    by Melvyn Stokes ...
    In this deeply researched and vividly written volume, Melvyn Stokes illuminates the origins, production, reception and continuing history of this ground-breaking, aesthetically brilliant, and yet highly controversial movie. By going back to the original archives, particularly the NAACP and D. W. Griffith Papers, Stokes explodes many of the myths surrounding The Birth of a Nation (1915). Yet the ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Gilda

    by Melvyn Stokes ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    Melvyn Stokes's study of the 1946 classic Gilda describes the film's production and reception history, as well as addressing Rita Hayworth's complex star persona and ethnicity identity; Gilda's status as a 'noir' film; and what the film had to say about relations between men and women in a world transformed by war. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • In the Shadow of The Birth of a Nation

    Racism, Reception and Resistance

    Edited by Melvyn Stokes, Paul McEwan ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This collection brings together many of the world’s leading scholars on race and film to re-consider the legacy and impact of D.W. Griffith’s deeply racist 1915 epic The Birth of a Nation. While this film is often cited, there is a considerable dearth of substantial research on its initial impact and global reach. These essays fill important gaps in the history of the film, including essential ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

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    A History of Southern Identity

    by James C. Cobb ...
    From the seventeenth century Cavaliers and Uncle Tom's Cabin to Civil Rights museums and today's conflicts over the Confederate flag here is a brilliant portrait of southern identity served in an engaging blend of history literature and popular culture. In this insightful book written with dry wit and sharp insight James C. Cobb explains how the South first came to be seen--and then came to see ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • The Reel Civil War

    Mythmaking in American Film

    by Bruce Chadwick ...
    During the late nineteenth century, magazines, newspapers, novelists, and even historians presented a revised version of the Civil War that, intending to reconcile the former foes, downplayed the issues of slavery and racial injustice, and often promoted and reinforced the worst racial stereotypes. The Reel Civil War tells the history of how these misrepresentations of history made their way into ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Forgeries of Memory and Meaning

    Blacks and the Regimes of Race in American Theater and Film before World War II

    by Cedric J. Robinson ...
    Cedric J. Robinson offers a new understanding of race in America through his analysis of theater and film of the early twentieth century. He argues that economic, political, and cultural forces present in the eras of silent film and the early “talkies” firmly entrenched limited representations of African Americans.Robinson grounds his study in contexts that illuminate the parallel growth of racial ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Thomas Nast

    The Father of Modern Political Cartoons

    by Fiona Deans Halloran ...
    Thomas Nast (1840–1902), the founding father of American political cartooning, is perhaps best known for his cartoons portraying political parties as the Democratic donkey and the Republican elephant. Nast’s legacy also includes a trove of other political cartoons, his successful attack on the machine politics of Tammany Hall in 1871, and his wildly popular illustrations of Santa Claus for Harper ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Uncle Tom

    From Martyr to Traitor

    by Adena Spingarn ...
    Uncle Tom charts the dramatic cultural transformation of perhaps the most controversial literary character in American history. From his origins as the heroic, Christ-like protagonist of Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel, the best-selling book of the nineteenth century after the Bible, Uncle Tom has become a widely recognized epithet for a black person deemed so subservient to whites that ... Read more

    $24.99 USD