Open AccessSituations and Characters of American Pre-War Cinema
Author(s) -
Victoria Andreyevna Fomina
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
vestnik vgik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2713-2471
pISSN - 2074-0832
DOI - 10.17816/vgik3144-56
Subject(s) - movie theater , character (mathematics) , history , media studies , literature , sociology , art , art history , geometry , mathematics
The article is devoted to the popular dramatic situations the psychological history of American pre-war cinema is based on. Alongside with the analysis of the America's fifty top-grossing films of the 1930s the author investigates the popular plots and character types. This survey is probably the first case of employing the frequency analysis method in cinema studies.