Movie-made America : a cultural history of American movies /
This vastly readable and richly illustrated volume examines film as art form, technological innovation, big business, and cultural bellwether. It takes in stars from Douglas Fairbanks to Sly Stallone; auteurs from D. W. Griffith to Martin Scorsese and Spike Lee; and genres from the screwball comedy...
| Основен автор: | Sklar, Robert, 1936- |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York :
Vintage Books,
1994.
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| Издание: | Rev. and updated. |
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| Онлайн достъп: |
Publisher description Table of contents only Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| Подобни документи: |
Online version::
Movie-made America. |
Съдържание:
- 1. The Birth of a Mass Medium
- 2. Nickel Madness
- 3. Edison's Trust and How It Got Busted
- 4. D. W. Griffith and the Forging of Motion-Picture Art
- 5. Hollywood and the Dawning of the Aquarian Age
- 6. The Silent Film and the Passionate Life
- 7. Chaos, Magic, Physical Genius and the Art of Silent Comedy
- 8. Movie-Made Children
- 9. The House That Adolph Zukor Built
- 10. The Moguls at Bay and the Censors' Triumph
- 11. The Golden Age at Turbulence and the Golden Age of Order
- 12. The Making of Cultural Myths: Walt Disney and Frank Capra
- 13. Selling Movies Overseas
- 14. The Hollywood Gold Rush
- 15. Hollywood at War for America and at War with Itself
- 16. The Disappearing Audience and the Television Crisis
- 17. Hollywood's Collapse
- 18. The Promise of Personal Film
- 19. Nadir and Revival
- 20. Hollywood and the Age of Reagan
- 21. From Myth to Memory
- 22. Independent Images.