American Cinema of The 1930s Themes and Variations

Name: American Cinema of The 1930s Themes and Variations
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ISBN: 9780813540825

ISBN-10: 0813540828

ISBN-13: 9780813540825

Edition: 2007

Authors: Ina Rae Hark

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Probably no decade saw as many changes in the Hollywood film industry and its product as the 1930s did. At the beginning of the decade, the industry was still struggling with the transition to talking pictures. Gangster films and naughty comedies starring Mae West were popular in urban areas, but aroused threats of censorship in the heartland. Whether the film business could survive the economic effects of the Crash was up in the air. By 1939, popularly called "Hollywood's Greatest Year," films like Gone With the Wind and The Wizard of Oz used both color and sound to spectacular effect, and remain American icons today. The "mature oligopoly" that was the studio system had not only weathered…

Book details

List price: $38.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication date: 6/21/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.15" wide x 9.25" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Timeline : the 1930s


Introduction : movies and the 1930s



1930 : movies and social difference



1931 : movies and the voice



1932 : movies and transgression



1933 : movies and the New Deal in entertainment



1934 : movies and the marginalized



1935 : movies and the resistance to tyranny



1936 : movies and the possibility of transcendence



1937 : movies and new constructions of the American star



1938 : movies and whistling in the dark



1939 : movies and American culture in the Annus Mirabilis