Hollywood's high noon : moviemaking & society before television /

In Hollywood's High Noon, Thomas Cripps brings together both the insights of recent scholarship in the field of film studies and the results of his own extensive research to trace the history of Hollywood, from its turn-of-the-century beginnings through the invention and development of the stud...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cripps, Thomas
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
Series:The American moment
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Looking at Hollywood's Classical Era
  • Ch. 1. The Incunabula of Movies
  • Ch. 2. Hollywood Becomes Hollywood
  • Ch. 3. Moviegoers
  • Ch. 4. Red Flags, White Thighs, and Blue Movies
  • Ch. 5. The Sound of the System
  • Ch. 6. Others' Movies
  • Ch. 7. The High Middle Ages of the Movies: The Great Depression
  • Ch. 8. Genre Movies: Art from a Putty Knife Factory
  • Ch. 9. Hollywood Goes to War
  • Ch. 10. The Long Good-Bye.