| Description |
266 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Philip Davies and Brian Neve -- The mind of the mob : Hollywood and popular culture in the 1930s / P.H. Melling -- The political economy of Hollywood : the studio system / Richard Maltby -- The nation in crisis : Hollywood's response to the 1940s / Ralph Willett -- Made for each other : the melodrama of Hollywood and the House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1947 / Richard Maltby -- The 1950s : the case of Elia Kazan and On the waterfront / Brian Neve -- A growing independence / Philip Davies -- The American western and American society / Christopher Frayling -- The working class goes to Hollywood / Leonard Quart and Albert Auster -- Blacks in American film / Mary Ellison -- Keystone to Kojak / Robert Reiner -- Blood on the Nash Ambassador : cars in American films / Eric Mottram |
| Analysis |
Motion pictures Social aspects United States |
| Notes |
American cinema films. Sociopolitical aspects (BNB/PRECIS) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Political aspects -- United States.
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Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- United States.
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| Author |
Davies, Philip, 1948-
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Neve, Brian.
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| LC no. |
82186069 |
| ISBN |
0719008328 |
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