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 ba

During the 1920s, sound revolutionized the motion picture industry and cinema continued as one of the most significant and popular forms of mass entertainment i

The essays in American Cinema 1890-1909 explore and define how the making of motion pictures flowered into an industry that would finally become the central ent

"This book introduces the reader to basic issues related to the phenomenon of American cinema. It looks at American film history from the 1890s through the spri

American Cinema in the Shadow of 9/11 is a ground-breaking collection of essays by some of the foremost scholars writing in the field of contemporary American f