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Best
Years
Price: $32.50
Subtitle: Going to
the Movies, 1945-1946
Author:
Charles Affron and
Mirella Jona Affron
Subject: Film,
American
Studies
Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-4697-1
Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4582-0
Pages:
336 pages
Publication Date: September 2009
Praise for Best Years
"This outstanding book's overview of the role movies played
at a key moment in the nation's history provides an invaluable and
wonderfully readable resource for scholars, students, and everyone who
loves the movies."—Robert Eberwein, author of Armed Forces: Masculinity and Sexuality
in the American War Film
Description:
Americans flocked to the movies in 1945 and 1946—the center
point of the three-decade heyday of the studio system’s sound era. Why?
Best
Years
is a panoramic study, shining light on this critical juncture in
American historyand the history of American cinema—the end of World War
II (1945) and a year of unprecedented success in Hollywood’s “Golden
Age” (1946). This unique time, the last year of war and the first full
year of peace, provides a rich blend of cinema genres and types—from
the battlefront to the home front, the peace film to the woman’s film,
psychological drama, and the period’s provocative new style, film noir.
Best Years focuses
on films that were famous, infamous, forgotten, and unforgettable.
Bigbudget A-films, road shows, and familiar series share the spotlight.
From Bergman and Grant in Notorious
to Abbott and Costello in Lost in a
Harem, Charles Affron and Mirella Jona Affron examine why the
bond between screen and viewer was perhaps never tighter. Paying
special attention to the movie-going public in key cities—Atlanta, New
York, Boston, Honolulu, and Chicago—this ambitious work takes us on a
cinematic journey to recapture a magical time.
About the Author:
CHARLES AFFRON is
professor emeritus of French at New York University. He is the author
of Lillian Gish:
Her Legend and Life, coauthor of Sets in Motion: Art Direction and Film
Narrative, and editor of 8½:
Federico Fellini, Director (Rutgers University Press). Along
with Mirella Jona Affron and Robert Lyons, he is a general editor of
Films in Print and Depth of Field, both Rutgers University Press series.
MIRELLA JONA
AFFRON is a professor of cinema studies at the College of Staten
Island/CUNY, where she was provost from 1995 to 2002, and at the
Graduate Center/CUNY. She is the coauthor of Sets in Motion: Art Direction and Film
Narrative and editor of The
Last Metro: François Truffaut, Director (both Rutgers
University Press). Along with Charles Affron and Robert Lyons, she is a
general editor of Films in Print and Depth of Field, both Rutgers
University Press series.
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