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Media Crossroads
Intersections of Space and Identity in Screen Cultures (Paperback)
by Paula J. Massood, Pamela Robertson Wojcik, Angel Daniel Matos
Paperback, 360 Pages, Published 2021 by Duke University Press, United States
ISBN-13: 978-1-4780-1174-3, ISBN: 1-4780-1174-2

"The highly teachable essays include analyses of media representations of urban life and gentrification, the ways video games allow users to adopt an experiential understanding of space, the intersection of the regulation of bodies and ..."






Media Crossroads
Intersections of Space and Identity in Screen Cultures (Hardback)
by Paula J. Massood
Hardcover, Published 2021 by Duke University Press, United States
ISBN-13: 978-1-4780-1061-6, ISBN: 1-4780-1061-4






American Cinema of the 1970s
Themes and Variations (Screen Decades: American Culture/American Cinema)
by Professor Lester D. Friedman, Professor Mia Mask, Professor Mimi White, Paula J. Massood, Professor David Cook, Professor Frances Gateward, Professor Glenn Man, Professor Frank Tomasulo, Professor Charles Maland, Associate Professor Michael Deangelis, Michael Deangelis, Mimi White, David Cook, Mia Mask, Frances Gateward, Glenn Man, Frank Tomasulo, Charles Maland, Professor Peter Lev
Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2007 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-4023-8, ISBN: 0-8135-4023-2

"A smug glance at the seventies-the so-called "Me Decade"-unveils a kaleidoscope of big hair, blaring music, and broken politics-all easy targets for satire, cynicism, and ultimately even nostalgia. American Cinema of the 1970s, however, looks beyond the strobe lights to reveal how profoundly the seventies have influenced American life and how the films of that decade represent a peak moment in cinema history. Far from a placid era, the ..."






Black City Cinema(1st Edition)
African American Urban Experiences In Film (Culture And The Moving Image)
by Paula J. Massood
Paperback, 280 Pages, Published 2003 by Temple University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-59213-003-0, ISBN: 1-59213-003-8

"In Black City Cinema, Paula Massood shows how popular films reflected the massive social changes that resulted from the Great Migration of African Americans from the rural South to cities in the North, West, and Mid-West during the first three decades of the twentieth century. By the onset of the Depression, the Black population had become primarily urban, transforming individual lives as well as urban experience and culture. Massood p ..."






Making a Promised Land
Harlem in Twentieth-Century Photography and Film
by Professor Paula J. Massood
Paperback, 264 Pages, Published 2012 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-5587-4, ISBN: 0-8135-5587-6

""Making a Promised Land" examines the interconnected histories of African American representation, urban life, and citizenship as documented in still and moving images of Harlem over the last century. Paula J. Massood analyzes how photography and film have been used over time to make African American culture visible to itself and to a wider audience and charts the ways in which the Mecca of the New Negro became a battleground in the str ..."






Black City Cinema
African American Urban Experiences in Film (Culture and the Moving Image)
by Professor Paula J. Massood
Hardcover, 281 Pages, Published 2003 by Temple Univ Pr
ISBN-13: 978-1-59213-002-3, ISBN: 1-59213-002-X

"In Black City Cinema, Paula Massood shows how popular films reflected the massive social changes that resulted from the Great Migration of African Americans from the rural South to cities in the North, West, and Mid-West during the first three decades of the twentieth century. By the onset of the Depression, the Black population had become primarily urban, transforming individual lives as well as urban experience and culture.Massood pro ..."






City That Never Sleeps
New York and the Filmic Imagination
by Murray Pomerance, Professor William Rothman, Professor Joe Mcelhaney, Aaron Baker, Professor David Gerstner, Professor Randy Thom, Professor Elizabeth Weis, Professor Scott Bukatman, Professor Pamela Grace, Professor David Desser, William Luhr, Peter Lehman, David Sterritt, Reviewer David Sterritt, Paula J. Massood, Professor Steven Alan Carr, Professor Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, Wheeler Winston Dixon, Barry Keith Grant, Nicole Solano, Rutgers University Press
Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2007 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-4032-0, ISBN: 0-8135-4032-1

"New York, more than any other city, has held a special fascination for filmmakers and viewers. In every decade of Hollywood filmmaking, artists of the screen have fixated upon this fascinating place for its tensions and promises, dazzling illumination and fear-some darkness. The glittering skyscrapers of such films as ""On the Town"" have shadowed the characteristic seedy streets in which desperate, passionate stories have played out - ..."






Making a Promised Land
Harlem in Twentieth-Century Photography and Film
by Professor Paula J. Massood
Hardcover, 264 Pages, Published 2012 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-5588-1, ISBN: 0-8135-5588-4

""Making a Promised Land" examines the interconnected histories of African American representation, urban life, and citizenship as documented in still and moving images of Harlem over the last century. Paula J. Massood analyzes how photography and film have been used over time to make African American culture visible to itself and to a wider audience and charts the ways in which the Mecca of the New Negro became a battleground in the str ..."






Screening the City(1st Edition)
by Mark Shiel, Tony Fitzmaurice, Matthew Gandy, Martin Gaughan, Paul Gormley, Peter Jelavich, Jessie Labov, Tyrus Miller, Darrell Varga, Carsten Strathausen, Professor Jude Davies, Jude Davies, John Orr, Professor Paula J. Massood, Professor John Orr, Dr Allan Siegel Md Phd, Professor David Sorfa, Allan Siegel, David Sorfa, Professor Mark Shiel, Shiel Fitzmaurice
Paperback, 322 Pages, Published 2003 by Verso
ISBN-13: 978-1-85984-476-2, ISBN: 1-85984-476-6

"Throughout the book, the cinema's artistic encounter with the city always intersects with a social and political engagement in which urgent issues of class, race, sexuality, the environment, liberty, capital, and totalitarianism are everywhere at stake.The city has long been an important location for filmmakers. Visually compelling and always modern, it is the perfect metaphor for man's place in the contemporary world. In this provocati ..."






Making a Promised Land
Harlem in Twentieth-Century Photography and Film
by Paula J. Massood
264 Pages, Published 2013 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-5589-8, ISBN: 0-8135-5589-2

"Alice Attie, Harlem on the Verge (New York: Quantuck Lane Press, 2003), 118. Robin D: G: Kelley, “Disappearing Acts: Capturing Harlem in Transition,” in Harlem on the Verge, by Alice Attie (New York: Quantuck Press, 2003), 19. Attie, Harlem on the Verge, 117. While there has been an African presence in Harlem from very early in its history, the number of African immigrants to the area ( including Central and East Harlem as well) has ..."






The Spike Lee Reader(Updated)
by Paula J. Massood, Temple University Press
Paperback, 312 Pages, Published 2008 by Temple University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-59213-485-4, ISBN: 1-59213-485-8

"Spike Lee's films have raised a multitude of questions about cinema, from attempts to outline the nature, or "essence," of a black cinematic aesthetics, to a revisioning of American film as a whole. They have sparked critical inquiries into the nature of genres, the role of the auteur, and the mechanics of an active text and an oppositional spectatorship. They have asked us to reconsider spectatorial pleasure; to revel in their polyphon ..."






Documenting the Documentary(Updated)
Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video, New and Expanded Edition (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series)
by Jim Leach, Bill Nichols, Jeannette Sloniowski, Barry Keith Grant, Seth Feldman, Joanne Hershfield, Vivian Sobchack, William Guynn, William Rothman, Charlie Keil, Thomas Waugh, Jeanne Hall, Robert Stam, Bart Testa, Joan Nicks, Carl Plantinga, Lucy Fischer, Linda Williams, Sheila Petty, Caryl Flinn, Julia Lesage, Virginia Bonner, Leshu Torchin, Diane Scheinman, Frank P. Tomasulo, Sandy Flitterman-Lewis, Jeffrey K. Ruoff, Paula J. Massood, David T. Johnson, John R. Cook, Matthew Bernstein
Paperback, 600 Pages, Published 2013 by Wayne State University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8143-3971-8, ISBN: 0-8143-3971-9

"Originally released in 1998, Documenting the Documentary responded to a scholarly landscape in which documentary film was largely understudied and undervalued aesthetically, and analysed instead through issues of ethics, politics, and film technology. Editors Barry Keith Grant and Jeannette Sloniowski addressed this gap by presenting a useful survey of the artistic and persuasive aspects of documentary film from a range of critical view ..."






Idols of Modernity
Movie Stars of the 1920s (Star Decades: American Culture/American Cinema)
by Patrice Petro, Contributor-Krin Gabbard, Contributor-Lucy Fischer, Contributor-Charles Wolfe, Scott Curtis, Professor Gerd Gemunden, Professor Lea Jacobs, Professor Amy Lawrence, Paula J. Massood, Lucy Rose Fischer, Professor Mary Desjardins, Professor Joanna E. Rapf, Professor Yiman Wang, Contributor-Prof. P., Mary R. Desjardins, Rutgers University Press
Hardcover, 328 Pages, Published 2010 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-4731-2, ISBN: 0-8135-4731-8

"With its sharp focus on stardom during the 1920s, ""Idols of Modernity"" reveals strong connections and dissonances in matters of storytelling and performance that can be traced both backward and forward, across Europe, Asia, and the United States, from the silent era into the emergence of sound. Bringing together the best new work on cinema and stardom in the 1920s, this illustrated collection showcases the range of complex social, ins ..."






Sustaining Cities
Urban Policies, Practices, and Perceptions (New Directions in International Studies)
by Linda Krause, Sherry Ahrentzen, Alfonso Iracheta, Charles Waldheim, Linda Mccarthy, Mo Zell, Ackbar Abbas, Andrew Kincaid, Georgia Butina Watson, Professor Paula J. Massood
Paperback, 178 Pages, Published 2012 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-5415-0, ISBN: 0-8135-5415-2

"What has happened to cities after the global economic recession? Sustaining Cities answers this question by explaining how failed governmental policies contributed to urban problems and offering best practices for solving them.From social scientists and urban planners to architects and literary and film critics, the authors of this unique collection suggest real responses to this crisis. Could the drastic declines in housing markets hav ..."






Teaching Film(Updated)
by Patrice Petro, Mark Langer, Michael Renov, Anne Rutherford, Tasha Oren, Lucy Fischer, Dudley Andrew, Garrett Stewart, Raphael Raphael, Mark Lynn Anderson, Pat Brereton Dr, Professor Timothy Corrigan, Professor Adam Lowenstein, Professor Paula J. Massood, Professor Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, Professor Hamid Naficy, Professor Maureen Turim, Professor Patricia White, Professor Michael Aronson, Professor David Desser, E. Ann Kaplan, Nataša Ďurovičová, Wheeler Winston Dixon, Michael Aronson, Pat Brereton, Timothy Corrigan, David Desser, Adam Lowenstein, Maureen Turim, Hamid Naficy, Patricia White, Reviewer David Desser, Lucy Rose Fischer
Paperback, 424 Pages, Published 2012 by The Modern Language Association Of America
ISBN-13: 978-1-60329-115-6, ISBN: 1-60329-115-6

"Film studies has been a part of higher education curricula in the United States almost since the development of the medium. Although the study of film is dispersed across a range of academic departments, programs, and scholarly organizations, film studies has come to be recognized as a field in its own right. In an era when teaching and scholarship are increasingly interdisciplinary, film studies continues to expand and thrive, attracti ..."






Media Crossroads
Intersections of Space and Identity in Screen Cultures
by Paula J. Massood, Angel Daniel Matos, Pamela Robertson Wojcik
350 Pages, Published 2021 by Duke University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-4780-2130-8, ISBN: 1-4780-2130-6

"... (Souleymane Sy Savane), a Senegalese taxicab driver who is married to a Mexican woman, Quiera (Carmen Leyva), and spends his time with African American, African, and white cab drivers in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. William (Red ..."






Screening the City
by Mark Shiel, Tony Fitzmaurice, Contributor-Jude Davies, Contributor-Matthew Gandy, Contributor-Martin Gaughan, Contributor-Paul Gormley, Contributor-Peter Jelavich, Contributor-Jessie Labov, Contributor-Tyrus Miller, Contributor-John Orr, Paula J. Massood, Allan Siegel, David Sorfa, Carsten Strathausen, Darrell Varga
Hardcover, 312 Pages, Published 2003 by Verso
ISBN-13: 978-1-85984-690-2, ISBN: 1-85984-690-4

"The city has long been an important location for filmmakers. Visually compelling and always modern, it is the perfect metaphor for man's place in the contemporary world. In this provocative collection of essays, films as diverse as The Man with the Movie Camera, Annie Hall, Street of Crocodiles, Boyz N the Hood, Three Colors Red, and Crash are examined in terms of the relationship between cinema and the changing urban experience in Eur ..."






Documenting the Documentary(98th Edition)
Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video
by Jim Leach, Bill Nichols, Lucy Fischer, Linda Williams, Joan Nicks, Bart Testa, Jeanne Hall, Carl Plantinga, Sheila Petty, Julia Lesage, Caryl Flinn, Jeannette Sloniowski, Diane Scheinman, Barry Keith Grant, Frank P. Tomasulo, Professor Robert Stam, Professor William Rothman, Professor Thomas Waugh, Professor Charlie Keil, Seth Feldman, Vivian Sobchack, Joanne Hershfield, William Guynn, Jeffrey K. Ruoff, Sandy Flitterman-Lewis, William Rothman, Charlie Keil, Thomas Waugh, Robert Stam, Matthew Bernstein, Virginia Bonner, Leshu Torchin, Paula J. Massood, David T. Johnson, John R. Cook, Reviewer Charlie Keil, Reviewer Thomas Waugh
Paperback, 488 Pages, Published 1998 by Wayne State University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8143-2639-8, ISBN: 0-8143-2639-0

"Documenting the Documentary features essays by twenty-seven film scholars from a wide range of critical and theoretical perspectives. Each essay focuses on one or two important documentaries, engaging in questions surrounding ethics, ideology, politics, power, race, gender, and representation -- but always in terms of how they arise out of or are involved in the reading of specific documentaries as particular textual constructions. By c ..."






Culture and the Moving Image
Black City Cinema : African American Urban Experiences in Film
by Paula Massood
280 Pages, Published 2003 by Temple University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-4399-0565-4, ISBN: 1-4399-0565-7

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NEW BLACK CINEMA(1st Edition)
CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN-AMERICAN FILM
by Paula Massood
Hardcover, Published 2010 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-28161-4, ISBN: 0-415-28161-X



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