A detailed study of the workings of the American film industry during the 1930s. Schindler illustrates how the studios helped to foster ideas of social unity and patriotism.
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...this book will find its way onto dozens of college reading lists, and undergraduates will be taken by the clarity of its linkages of movies and politics, its effective blend of narrative and topical chapters, and its neatly drawn political readings of movies meant as mere entertainments...All collections.
–Choice, May 1997
–Choice, May 1997
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On 3 September 1929 the Dow Jones average of stock market prices reached its peak before the Crash which was to begin seven weeks later. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, Hays Office, Jack Warner, United States, Black Fury, Dead End, Los Angeles, Ginger Rogers, Wall Street, Blue Eagle, Robert Lord, White House, Little Caesar, Darryl Zanuck, Harry Warner, Joseph Breen, The Hollywood Reporter, Gary Cooper, Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Paul Muni, United Mine Workers, Communist Party, Mae West New!
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On 3 September 1929 the Dow Jones average of stock market prices reached its peak before the Crash which was to begin seven weeks later. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
employing company, gangster film Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Hays Office, Jack Warner, United States, Black Fury, Dead End, Los Angeles, Ginger Rogers, Wall Street, Blue Eagle, Robert Lord, White House, Little Caesar, Darryl Zanuck, Harry Warner, Joseph Breen, The Hollywood Reporter, Gary Cooper, Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Paul Muni, United Mine Workers, Communist Party, Mae West New!
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- Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success by Joseph McBride on 4 pages
- The Name Above The Title by Frank Capra on 4 pages
- Sixty Years of Hollywood by John Baxter in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Motion Picture Empire by Gertrude Jobes in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Power and the Glitter: The Hollywood-Washington Connection by Ronald Brownstein in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture (Film and Culture) by Thomas Doherty in Back Matter
- The Greatest Generation Grows Up: American Childhood in the 1930s (American Childhoods Series) by Kriste Lindenmeyer in Back Matter
- Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema; 1930-1934 by Thomas Doherty in Back Matter
- Public Enemies, Public Heroes: Screening the Gangster from Little Caesar to Touch of Evil by Jonathan Munby in Back Matter
- Classical Antiquity and the Politics of America: From George Washington to George W. Bush by Michael Meckler in Back Matter
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