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Movies In Our Time - Hollywood Mirrors and Mimics the Twentieth Century: Essays on Pop Culture as Seen in the Movies Kindle Edition

by Jacqueline T. Lynch (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Hollywood films from the 1930s through the 1950s reflected their era—and sometimes created it.

Today, classic films are the moving image scrapbooks of collective memory, but when they were shown long ago in downtown movie palaces or neighborhood second-run movie houses, they were, as much as the newsreels, a catalogue of current events.

Movies in Our Time – Hollywood Mirrors and Mimics the Twentieth Century is a collection of thoughtful, humorous, and insightful essays on three decades of classic films and the culture that made them.

If you are a classic film fan who enjoys picking out the minutiae, you may already be aware that the minor actors in The Best Years of Our Lives tell us much more about the three returning veterans than they do themselves. You may already understand the telling significance of the social and political background of the delightful wartime comedy The More the Merrier. You may already be in tune with the message of films that led us into the frightening, fabulous fifties like I Want You (the American home front in the Korean War), Split Second (atomic bomb testing in the Nevada desert), Storm Center (a librarian is a victim of McCarthyism). If not, or if you think Peyton Place and Picnic are only about unhappy teenagers in small towns, then maybe you might enjoy another look at their faces—the stars, the character actors, the bit players.

Return to a world of our own making and our own telling. See how much significance these movies have today. Understanding the background is what puts color in a movie, even in a black and white film.
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Jacqueline T. Lynch's novels, short stories, and non-fiction books on New England history and film criticism are available as eBooks, audiobooks, and paperback.  She is also a playwright whose plays have been produced around the United States and in Europe, and has published articles and short fiction in regional and national publications.  She writes Another Old Movie Blog on classic films, and the syndicated column Silver Screen/Golden Years.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00KTN9P3G
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Jacqueline T. Lynch (June 5, 2014)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 5, 2014
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Jacqueline T. Lynch’s novels, short stories, and non-fiction books on New England history and classic films are available from many online shops as eBooks, audiobook, and paperback. She is also a playwright whose plays have been produced around the United States and in Europe, and has published articles and short fiction in regional and national publications. She writes Another Old Movie Blog on classic films, and the syndicated newspaper column Silver Screen, Golden Memories. For updates and special offers, please see her website: www.JacquelineTLynch.com.

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  • Boche
    4.0 out of 5 stars Why self-publishing matters
    Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2014
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    This is a self-published collection of essays from Lynch's blog. Some good, some bad, but mostly very interesting. Luckily. Lynch picks lots of overlooked films to blog about. For example, a personal favorite--the Unfaithful with Ann Sheridan, a reworking of The Letter with Bette Davis that also acknowledges the postwar problems of the vets--which Lynch also likes.
    The book could be improved if it was narrowed down to one or two subjects encompassing a dozen or so movies. For instance, Lynch does a fine job on the postwar era as reflected in Hollywood films. Hell, that's a subject worth a book.
    No matter what quibbles I have I take my hat off to Lynch's industry and the quality of her reviews. I wish her essays appeared in some Sunday paper but until then I have to go to her blog.
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