Fifty Key American Films

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Edited by John White and Sabine Haenni

Type

Film Reviews

Subject

Countries > United States

Keywords

american cinema, film selection

Publishing date

2009

Publisher

Routledge

Collection

Routledge Key Guides

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 288 pages
5 ½ x 8 ¾ inches (14 x 22 cm)

ISBN

978-0-415-77297-6

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Book Presentation:
Fifty Key American Films explores and contextualises some of the most important films ever made in the United States. With case studies from the early years of cinema to the present day, this comprehensive Key Guide provides accessible analyses from a range of theoretical perspectives.

This chronologically ordered volume includes coverage of:

Citizen Kane

Casablanca

Psycho

Taxi Driver

Blade Runner

Pulp Fiction
Amongst a raft of well-known films, the work of some of America’s best known directors, such as Lynch, Scorsese, Coppola and Scott, is discussed. This book is essential reading for students of film, and will be of interest to anyone seeking to explore the impact of American cinema.

About the authors:
John White is teacher of Film, English and Media at Parkside Community College and Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge. He is co-author of AS Film Studies: The Essential Introduction, A2 Film Studies: The Essential Introduction, and co-editor of Fifty Key British Films, also published by Routledge.
Sabine Haenni teaches Film and American Studies at Cornell University. She is the author of The Immigrant Scene: Ethnic Amusements in New York 1880-1920 and has published widely on popular theatre, early cinema and realist fiction.

Press Reviews:
'Fifty Key American Films is a book full of good, well-crafter writing about cinema' - MEA

'Fifty Key American Films is about films that have gained classic status either through critical appraisal or through popular acclaim or both. The book is unabashedly about films that have attained canonical status and are worthy of being labelled as key filmic moments in 100 years of American cinematic experience... Each of the films has been read aesthetically, thematically and ideologically, within the cultural context of its production and consumption, displaying a range of judgements and this is where the book scores...The book is a must read for all those seeking an introduction to some of the best of American cinema.' - Scope

See the publisher website: Routledge