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Shot on location : postwar American cinema and the exploration of real place / R. Barton Palmer.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Techniques of the moving imagePublisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2016]Copyright date: �2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813564104
  • 0813564107
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Shot on locationDDC classification:
  • 791.430973 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1993.5.U6 P28 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Real History, Real Cinema -- 1. Filming The Transitory World We Live In -- 2. The Postwar Turn Toward The Real -- 3. Of Backdrops And Place: The Searchers And Sunset Blvd -- 4. An American Neorealism? -- 5. Noir On Location -- 6. The Legacies Of The Ramparts We Watch -- Conclusion: Authentic Banality? -- Notes -- Index -- About The Author
Summary: Renowned film scholar R. Barton Palmer explores the historical, ideological, economic, and technical developments that led Hollywood filmmakers of the late 1940s and 1950s to increasingly head outside the studio and capture footage of real places. Examining works ranging from Sunset Blvd. to The Searchers, Shot on Location discovers the massive influence that wartime newsreels had on the postwar Hollywood film, as the blurring of the formal boundaries between cinematic journalism and fiction lent a ""reality effect"" to otherwise implausible stories.
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Renowned film scholar R. Barton Palmer explores the historical, ideological, economic, and technical developments that led Hollywood filmmakers of the late 1940s and 1950s to increasingly head outside the studio and capture footage of real places. Examining works ranging from Sunset Blvd. to The Searchers, Shot on Location discovers the massive influence that wartime newsreels had on the postwar Hollywood film, as the blurring of the formal boundaries between cinematic journalism and fiction lent a ""reality effect"" to otherwise implausible stories.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Real History, Real Cinema -- 1. Filming The Transitory World We Live In -- 2. The Postwar Turn Toward The Real -- 3. Of Backdrops And Place: The Searchers And Sunset Blvd -- 4. An American Neorealism? -- 5. Noir On Location -- 6. The Legacies Of The Ramparts We Watch -- Conclusion: Authentic Banality? -- Notes -- Index -- About The Author

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