American cinema of the 1930s : themes and variations
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American cinema of the 1930s : themes and variations
（Screen decades）
Rutgers University Press, c2007
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- : pbk
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Chronology: p. xi-xiii
Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-265) and index
Contents of Works
- 1930 : Movies and social difference / Aaron Baker
- 1931 : Movies and the voice / Cynthia Erb
- 1932 : Movies and transgression / David Lugowski
- 1933 : Movies and the New Deal in entertainment / Martin Rubin
- 1934 : Movies and the marginalized / Charlene Regester
- 1935 : Movies and the resistance to tyranny / Ina Rae Hark
- 1936 : Movies and the possibility of transcendence / Susan Ohmer
- 1937 : Movies and new constructions of the American star / Allen Larson
- 1938 : Movies and whistling in the dark / Sam B. Girgus
- 1939 : Movies and American culture in the annus mirabilis / Charles Maland
- Select Academy Awards, 1930-1939
Description and Table of Contents
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: hbk ISBN 9780813540818
Description
Probably no decade saw as many changes in the Hollywood film industry and its product as the 1930s did. At the beginning of the decade, the industry was still struggling with the transition to talking pictures. Gangster films and naughty comedies starring Mae West were popular in urban areas, but aroused threats of censorship in the heartland. Whether the film business could survive the economic effects of the Crash was up in the air. By 1939, popularly called "Hollywood's Greatest Year," films like Gone With the Wind and The Wizard of Oz used both color and sound to spectacular effect, and remain American icons today. The "mature oligopoly" that was the studio system had not only weathered the Depression and become part of mainstream culture through the establishment and enforcement of the Production Code, it was a well-oiled, vertically integrated industrial powerhouse.
The ten original essays in American Cinema of the 1930s focus on sixty diverse films of the decade, including Dracula, The Public Enemy, Trouble in Paradise, 42nd Street, King Kong, Imitation of Life, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Swing Time, Angels with Dirty Faces, Nothing Sacred, Jezebel, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and Stagecoach .
A volume in the Screen Decades: American Culture/American Cinema series, edited by Lester D. Friedman and Murray Pomerance
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: pbk ISBN 9780813540825
Description
Probably no decade saw as many changes in the Hollywood film industry and its product as the 1930s did. At the beginning of the decade, the industry was still struggling with the transition to talking pictures. Gangster films and naughty comedies starring Mae West were popular in urban areas, but aroused threats of censorship in the heartland. Whether the film business could survive the economic effects of the Crash was up in the air. By 1939, popularly called "Hollywood's Greatest Year," films like Gone With the Wind and The Wizard of Oz used both color and sound to spectacular effect, and remain American icons today. The "mature oligopoly" that was the studio system had not only weathered the Depression and become part of mainstream culture through the establishment and enforcement of the Production Code, it was a well-oiled, vertically integrated industrial powerhouse.
The ten original essays in American Cinema of the 1930s focus on sixty diverse films of the decade, including Dracula, The Public Enemy, Trouble in Paradise, 42nd Street, King Kong, Imitation of Life, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Swing Time, Angels with Dirty Faces, Nothing Sacred, Jezebel, Mr. Smith Goes toWashington, and Stagecoach .
Table of Contents
1930 : Movies and social difference / Aaron Baker
1931 : Movies and the voice / Cynthia Erb
1932 : Movies and transgression / David Lugowski
1933 : Movies and the New Deal in entertainment / Martin Rubin
1934 : Movies and the marginalized / Charlene Regester
1935 : Movies and the resistance to tyranny / Ina Rae Hark
1936 : Movies and the possibility of transcendence / Susan Ohmer
1937 : Movies and new constructions of the American star / Allen Larson
1938 : Movies and whistling in the dark / Sam B. Girgus
1939 : Movies and American culture in the annus mirabilis / Charles Maland
Select Academy Awards, 1930-1939
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