[PDF] Policing Cinema eBook

Author : Lee Grieveson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 45,72 MB
Release : 2004-05-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0520937422

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White slave films, dramas documenting sex scandals, filmed prize fights featuring the controversial African-American boxer Jack Johnson, D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation—all became objects of public concern after 1906, when the proliferation of nickelodeons brought moving pictures to a broad mass public. Lee Grieveson draws on extensive original research to examine the controversies over these films and over cinema more generally. He situates these contestations in the context of regulatory concerns about populations and governance in an early-twentieth-century America grappling with the powerful forces of modernity, in particular, immigration, class formation and conflict, and changing gender roles. Tracing the discourses and practices of cultural and political elites and the responses of the nascent film industry, Grieveson reveals how these interactions had profound effects on the shaping of film content, form, and, more fundamentally, the proposed social function of cinema: how cinema should function in society, the uses to which it might be put, and thus what it could or would be. Policing Cinema develops new perspectives for the understanding of censorship and regulation and the complex relations between governance and culture. In this work, Grieveson offers a compelling analysis of the forces that shaped American cinema and its role in society.

Author : Lee Grieveson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 28,46 MB
Release : 2004-05-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0520239652

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Author : Jared Sexton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 22,40 MB
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3319661701

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This book offers a critical survey of film and media representations of black masculinity in the early twenty-first-century United States, between President George W. Bush’s 2001 announcement of the War on Terror and President Barack Obama’s 2009 acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize. It argues that images of black masculine authority have become increasingly important to the legitimization of contemporary policing and its leading role in the maintenance of an antiblack social order forged by racial slavery and segregation. It examines a constellation of film and television productions—from Antoine Fuqua’s Training Day to John Lee Hancock’s The Blind Side to Barry Jenkin's Moonlight—to illuminate the contradictory dynamics at work in attempts to reconcile the promotion of black male patriarchal empowerment and the preservation of gendered antiblackness within political and popular culture.

Author : George Beck
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 23,97 MB
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1476680221

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Widespread law enforcement or formal policing outside of cities appeared in the early 20th century around the same time the early film industry was developing--the two evolved in tandem, intersecting in meaningful ways. Much scholarship has focused on portrayals of the criminal in early American cinema, yet little has been written about depictions of the criminal's antagonist. This history examines how different on-screen representations shifted public perception of law enforcement--initially seen as a suspicious or intrusive institution, then as a power for the common good.

Author : Noah Tsika
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 41,20 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0197577725

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"American police departments have presided over the business of motion pictures since the end of the nineteenth century. Their influence is evident not only on the screen but also in the ways movies are made, promoted, and viewed in the United States. Screening the Police explores the history of film's entwinement with law enforcement, showing the role that state power has played in the creation and expansion of a popular medium. For the New Jersey State Police in the 1930s, film offered a method of visualizing criminality and of circulating urgent information about escaped convicts. For the New York Police Department, the medium was a means of making the agency world-famous as early as 1896. Beat cops became movie stars. Police chiefs made their own documentaries. And from Maine to California, state and local law enforcement agencies regularly fingerprinted filmgoers for decades, amassing enormous records as they infiltrated theatres both big and small. Understanding the scope of police power in the United States requires attention to an aspect of film history that has long been ignored. Screening the Police reveals the extent to which American cinema has overlapped with the politics and practices of law enforcement. Today, commercial filmmaking is heavily reliant on public policing-and vice versa. How such a working relationship was forged and sustained across the long twentieth century is the subject of this book"--

Author : M. Ray Lott
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 32,43 MB
Release : 2015-01-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1476609403

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From the Roman Praetorian Guard to the English shire-reeve to the U.S. marshals, lawmen have a long and varied history. At first, such groups were often corrupt, guilty of advancing a political agenda rather than protecting citizens. It was about the turn of the twentieth century that police officers as we know them came into being. At this time, a number of police reforms such as civil service and police unions were developed. Citizen committees were formed to oversee police function. About this same time, the technology of motion pictures was being advanced. Movies evolved from silent films with a limited budget and short running time to films with sound whose budget was ever rising and whose audience demanded longer, more complex story lines. From the infancy of moviemaking, lawmen of various types were popular subjects. Bounty hunters, sheriffs, private eyes, detectives and street officers--often portrayed by some of Hollywood's biggest names--have been depicted in every conceivable way. Compiled from a comprehensive examination of the material in question, this volume provides a critical-historical analysis of law enforcement in American cinema. From High Noon to The Empire Strikes Back, it examines the police in their many incarnations with emphasis on the ways in which lawmen are portrayed and how this portrayal changes over time. Each film discussed reveals something about society, subtly commenting on social conditions, racial issues and government interventions. Major historical events such as the Great Depression, World War II and the McCarthy trials find their way into many of these films. Significant film genres from science fiction to spaghetti western are represented. Films examined include Easy Street (1917), a nominal comedy starring Charlie Chaplin; Star Packer, a 1934 John Wayne film; The Maltese Falcon (1941) with Humphrey Bogart; Dirty Harry, a 1971 Clint Eastwood classic; Leslie Nielsen's spoof Naked Gun (1988); and 1993's Tombstone featuring Kurt Russell. The filmography contains a synopsis along with information on director, screenplay, starring actors and year of production. Photographs and an index are also included.

Author : George Beck
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 10,90 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Law enforcement
ISBN :

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What is commonly understood in America today as widespread law enforcement, or formal policing outside of the cities, appeared in the early twentieth century around the same time that the early film industry first developed. Thus modern law enforcement and film evolved closely in tandem, while also intersecting in meaningful ways. For the purpose of this study, this parallel, yet at times overlapping, history of early law enforcement and film provides an essential context for understanding how representations of law enforcement in early American cinema both influenced and refracted the public's perceptions of law enforcement, thus revealing a shift from views of law enforcement initially as a suspicious force to a power for the common good. Since the inception of film as a mechanism that transformed live entertainment into a recorded medium, social issues have found their way into cinematic narratives. Many early films notably include representations of both law enforcement and the justice system, and thus the American public's changing perceptions of police officers in the first half of the twentieth century can be analyzed from the early film archive. For this reason, each chapter in this study examines the depictions of law enforcement in several early twentieth-century American films, ranging from 1900 to 1952. The historical periods covered in this study range from the Progressive era through Prohibition, followed by the Depression and the seeming collapse of the American Dream, to the start of the Cold War, and finally, the post-WWII period when the United States was viewed as the newly crowned superpower of the world. Carefully selected films in these historical periods are analyzed in ways that trace the American public' changing perceptions of American law enforcement. While much scholarly attention focuses on the criminal in early cinema, as well as on how the film industry's censorship affected the kinds of films Americans viewed, there has been a relative lack of research into representations of law enforcement in film during the early-wentieth-century American cinema. Most notably absent is specific research on the criminal's antagonist--the police officer. Seeking to correct the lack of scholarly attention in this area, the research included in this study represents the first in-depth study of early law enforcement in early-twentieth-century American film, thereby also revealing the evolution of early law enforcement.

Author : Cristina Vatulescu
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 10,53 MB
Release : 2010-10-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804775729

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The documents emerging from the secret police archives of the former Soviet bloc have caused scandal after scandal, compromising revered cultural figures and abruptly ending political careers. Police Aesthetics offers a revealing and responsible approach to such materials. Taking advantage of the partial opening of the secret police archives in Russia and Romania, Vatulescu focuses on their most infamous holdings—the personal files—as well as on movies the police sponsored, scripted, or authored. Through the archives, she gains new insights into the writing of literature and raises new questions about the ethics of reading. She shows how police files and films influenced literature and cinema, from autobiographies to novels, from high-culture classics to avant-garde experiments and popular blockbusters. In so doing, she opens a fresh chapter in the heated debate about the relationship between culture and politics in twentieth-century police states.

Author : Laura Wittern-Keller
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,1 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Law
ISBN :

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Examines the Supreme Court's unanimous 1952 decision in favor of a film exhibitor who had been denied a license to show the controversial Italian film, Il Miracolo. The ruling was a watershed event in the history of film censorship, ushering in a new era of mature--and sophisticated--American filmmaking.

Author : Jared Sexton
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 44,76 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816651043

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"In this analysis, Sexton pursues a critique of contemporary multiracialism, from the splintered political initiatives of the multiracial movement to the academic field of multiracial studies, to the melodramatic media declarations about "the browning of America." He contests the rationales of colorblindness and multiracial exceptionalism and the promotion of a repackaged family values platform in order to demonstrate that the true target of multiracialism is the singularity of blackness as a social identity, a political organizing principle, and an object of desire. From this vantage, Sexton interrogates the trivialization of sexual violence under chattel slavery and the convoluted relationship between racial and sexual politics in the new multiracial consciousness."--BOOK JACKET.