TY - BOOK ID - 49688898 TI - Hollywood renaissance : the cinema of democracy in the era of Ford, Capra, and Kazan PY - 1998 SN - 0521625521 052162388X 1139173189 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Motion picture producers and directors KW - Motion pictures KW - Production and direction. KW - History. KW - Directors, Motion picture KW - Film directors KW - Film producers KW - Filmmakers KW - Motion picture directors KW - Moviemakers KW - Moving-picture producers and directors KW - Producers, Motion picture KW - Persons KW - CINEMA AMERICAIN KW - PRODUCTEURS ET REALISATEURS DE CINEMA KW - HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE KW - ETATS-UNIS UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:49688898 AB - American film directors from the late 1930s to the early 1960s instigated a renaissance of original artistic works that helped reinvigorate and renew American culture. During a time of unprecedented danger from anti-democratic forces both abroad and at home, the most imaginative and creative films of these directors - John Ford, Frank Capra, Howard Hawks, Fred Zinnemann, Elia Kazan, George Stevens - articulated issues, themes, and realities at the core of the American experience. In this lively and original book, Sam Girgus offers a fresh look at films such as The Searchers, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, It's a Wonderful Life, High Noon, and On the Waterfront. He shows how these films are part of the cultural and historic debate that examines, structures, and questions what modern America means to its people, the world, and history. ER -