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Sam B. Girgus (born c. 1942) is an American film and literature scholar, professor of English at Vanderbilt University.

Sam B. He is well known for his analysis of the works of Woody Allen in his books such as The Films of Woody Allen (2002) and A Companion to Woody Allen (2013) with Peter J. Bailey. He believes ultimately that Allen's films undermine the world in which we live.

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America on Film, first published in 2002, examines how the notion of 'American' has changed from American cinema up to the 1950s. Cambridge University Press. Assembled Product Dimensions (L x W x H). 8 x . 6 x . 9 Inches.

This study examines a selection of films made in the last quarter of the twentieth century in an effort to trace how the notion of "American" has changed drastically from that portrayed in American cinema up to the 1950s. In works such as Mississippi Masala, Lone Star, Malcolm X, Raging Bull, When We Were Kings and Bugsy Sam Girgus finds a new and ethnically varied array of characters that embody American values, ideals and conflicts.

America on Film : Modernism, Documentary, and a Changing America. By (author) Sam B. Girgus. In America on Film, first published in 2002, Sam Girgus examines a selection of films made in the last quarter of the twentieth century in an effort to trace how the notion of 'American' has changed drastically from that portrayed in American cinema up to the 1950s. Close X. Learn about new offers and get more deals by joining our newsletter.

America on Film charts these changes through analysis of cinematic tensions between fiction, documentary, and modernism

America on Film charts these changes through analysis of cinematic tensions between fiction, documentary, and modernism. An art form that combines fragments of reality with imagination, film, Girgus maintains, connects the documentary realism of the photographic image to the abstraction and non-representation of modernism

Bibliography of film: documentary.

Bibliography of film: documentary. LibraryThing members' description. He charts these changes through analysis of cinematic tensions between fiction, documentary and modernism. Library descriptions. Girgus is professor of English at Vanderbilt University. America on Film : Modernism, Documentary, and a Changing America (Cambridge University Press, 2002)

Sam B. In addition, he has written the refereed essay on Woody Allen for the Oxford Bibliographies in Cinema and Media Studies (March 2013). America on Film : Modernism, Documentary, and a Changing America (Cambridge University Press, 2002). The Hollywood Renaissance: The Cinema of Democracy in the Era of Ford, Capra, and Kazan (Cambridge UP, 1998). The Films of Woody Allen (Cambridge UP, 1993; 2nd ed. Girgus is professor of English at Vanderbilt University and author of Hollywood Renaissance: The Cinema of Democracy in the Era of Ford, Capra, and Kazan; The Films of Woody Allen; America on Film: Modernism, Documentary, and a Changing America; and Desire and th. . Girgus is professor of English at Vanderbilt University and author of Hollywood Renaissance: The Cinema of Democracy in the Era of Ford, Capra, and Kazan; The Films of Woody Allen; America on Film: Modernism, Documentary, and a Changing America; and Desire and the Political Unconscious in American Literature.