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Article: Movies and Mass Culture.
(book reviews)
- Article from:
- Journal of Popular Film & Television
- Article date:
- June 22, 1997
- Author:
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Even with today's easily assembled course packets, published collections of well-chosen essays remain useful. In Movies and Mass Culture, editor John Belton offers the film history teacher a valuable companion text comprising ten essays that approach, quite variously, the relationship between American film and national identity. Except for one original piece by Martin Rubin (and some editorial background notes on film censorship that accompany the text of the Production Code), the essays are all reprints; many are well known. Thus, they not only offer insight into a century of movie making and watching, but also provide a cultural history of conceptual trends and rhetorical ...