Shot on location :: postwar American cinema and the exploration of real place /

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 Sea...

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Main Author: Palmer, R. Barton, 1946- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2016]
Series:Techniques of the moving image.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
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.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780813564104
0813564107
9780813575490
0813575494

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