A History of American Movies : : a Film-By-Film Look at the Art, Craft, and Business of Cinema
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Classic Hollywood, 1927-1948. Establishing Hollywood -- Early synchronous sound -- Classic Hollywood takes form -- Banner years -- Red, white, blue, and noir -- Postwar triumphs and reversals -- Hollywood in transition 1949-1974. Postwar unravelings -- Declining audiences and initial responses -- Hollywood on the ropes -- Indications of revival -- Conglomerate control, movie brats, and creativity -- New Hollywood, 1975-2009. Origins of Hollywood divided -- Mixed styles, mixed messages -- Hollywood in the 1980s -- New Hollywood enters the digital age -- Hollywood enters the twenty-first century.
The book focuses on 170 of the most highly regarded and recognized feature films selected by the Hollywood establishment: each Oscar winner for Best Picture, as well as those voted the greatest by members of the American Film Institute. By focusing on a select group of films that represent the epitome of these collaborations, Monaco provides an essential history of one of the modern world's most complex and successful cultural institutions: Hollywood. --from publisher description.
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PUBLISHED
Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2010.
Year Published: 2010
Description: xvii, 349 p. ; 23 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780810874336
0810874334
9780810874343
0810874342
SUBJECTS
Motion pictures -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century.
Motion picture industry -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century.
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- History -- 20th century.