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| Author | : Wheeler W. Dixon |
| Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
| Total Pages | : 301 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0813537002 |
The 1940s was a watershed decade for American cinema and the nation. Shaking off the grim legacy of the Depression, Hollywood launched an unprecedented wave of production, generating some of its most memorable classics. Featuring essays by a group of respected film scholars and historians, American Cinema of the 1940s brings this dynamic and turbulent decade to life with such films as Citizen Kane, Rebecca, The Lady Eve, Sergeant York, How Green Was My Valley, Casablanca, Mrs. Miniver, The Road to Morocco, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Kiss of Death, Force of Evil, Caught, and Apology for Murder. Illustrated with many rare stills and filled with provocative insights, the volume will appeal to students, teachers, and to all those interested in cultural history and American film of the twentieth century.
| Author | : David Bordwell |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 583 |
| Release | : 2017-10-02 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 022648775X |
Introduction: the way Hollywood told it -- The frenzy of five fat years; Interlude: Spring 1940: lessons from our town
| Author | : Otto Friedrich |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 518 |
| Release | : 1997-05-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780520209497 |
History of Hollywood in the 1940's
| Author | : Lloyd Billingsley |
| Publisher | : Prima Lifestyles |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Blacklisting of entertainers |
| ISBN | : 9780761521662 |
This engrossing tale of intrigue, passion, betrayal, and violence uncovers the true face of communism in Southern California, and names writers and actresses who were seduced by the party's philosophy.
| Author | : Marc Wanamaker |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 132 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780738559230 |
Since World War II, Hollywood has fought and won that same war many times, won the West even more often--plus got the girl--and laughed like crazy, too. The postwar era in the dream factory was a prosperous time of expansion and wealth through the 1970s, decline in the 1980s, and rebirth in the new century. Vintage photographs from the rare collections of Hollywood Heritage and Bison Archives depict the municipal, business, residential, and entertainment industry growth in Hollywood proper, from 1940 until the beginning of the 21st century. This companion volume to Arcadia Publishing's Early Hollywood completes the pictorial saga of the world's most renowned storytelling capital. These images depict the rise of the television industry, changes along Hollywood Boulevard, and movers and shakers whose visions and influence have made Hollywood the entertainment industry's Mecca.
| Author | : Thomas Schatz |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 596 |
| Release | : 1999-11-23 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780520221307 |
On the history of motion pictures
| Author | : Ron Backer |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 330 |
| Release | : 2010-05-17 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 9780786448647 |
Many of the 20th century’s most celebrated fictional sleuths appeared in Hollywood movie mystery series of the forties. This volume focuses on 19 series (146 films): The Saint, The Lone Wolf, Sherlock Holmes, The Shadow, Nick Carter, Michael Shayne, Ellery Queen, Boston Blackie, The Falcon, Mr. District Attorney, Wally Benton, Crime Doctor, The Whistler, Inner Sanctum, Dick Tracy, Philip Marlowe, Jack Packard and Doc Long, Steve Wilson and Lorelei Kilbourne and John J. Malone. For each series, there is an overview of the source material, the individual films, and the performers who acted in them. An overall review of each film is included, with a critique of the film’s quality and the cohesiveness of its plot. For movies based on written works, a comparison between the film and its literary original is offered.
| Author | : Sean Griffin |
| Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
| Total Pages | : 270 |
| Release | : 2011-04-28 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 081355084X |
Humphrey Bogart. Abbott and Costello. Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney. John Wayne. Rita Hayworth and Betty Grable. Images of these film icons conjure up a unique moment in cinema and history, one of optimism and concern, patriotism and cynicism. What Dreams Were Made Of examines the performers who helped define American cinema in the 1940s, a decade of rapid and repeated upheaval for Hollywood and the United States. Through insightful discussions of key films as well as studio publicity and fan magazines, the essays in this collection analyze how these actors and actresses helped lift spirits during World War II, whether in service comedies, combat films, or escapist musicals. The contributors, all major writers on the stars and movies of this period, also explore how cultural shifts after the war forced many stars to adjust to new outlooks and attitudes, particularly in film noir. Together, they represented the hopes and fears of a nation during turbulent times, enacting on the silver screen the dreams of millions of moviegoers.
| Author | : Dennis Broe |
| Publisher | : University Press of Florida |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 2009-01-25 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0813059089 |
Film noir, which flourished in 1940s and 50s, reflected the struggles and sentiments of postwar America. Dennis Broe contends that the genre, with its emphasis on dark subject matter, paralleled the class conflict in labor and union movements that dominated the period. By following the evolution of film noir during the years following World War II, Broe illustrates how the noir figure represents labor as a whole. In the 1940s, both radicalized union members and protagonists of noir films were hunted and pursued by the law. Later, as labor unions achieve broad acceptance and respectability, the central noir figure shifts from fugitive criminal to law-abiding cop. Expanding his investigation into the Cold War and post-9/11 America, Broe extends his analysis of the ways film noir is intimately connected to labor history. A brilliant, interdisciplinary examination, this is a work that will appeal to a broad spectrum of readers.
| Author | : David Bordwell |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 183 |
| Release | : 2016-04-04 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 022635220X |
Pauline Kael, Andrew Sarris, and Roger Ebert were three of America's most revered and widely read film critics, more famous than many of the movies they wrote about. But their remarkable contributions to the burgeoning American film criticism of the 1960s and beyond were deeply influenced by four earlier critics: Otis Ferguson, James Agee, Manny Farber, and Parker Tyler. Film scholar and critic David Bordwell restores to a wider audience the work of Ferguson, Agee, Farber, and Tyler, critics he calls the 'Rhapsodes' for the passionate and deliberately offbeat nature of their vernacular prose.
