"You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet" The American Talking Film History and Memory 1927-1949

ISBN-10: 0195134265

ISBN-13: 9780195134261

Edition: 1999

Authors: Andrew Sarris

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Andrew Sarris has long been one of America's most celebrated writers on film, author of the seminal work The American Cinema, and for decades a highly regarded critic, first for The Village Voice and more recently for The New York Observer. Now comes Sarris's definitive statement on film, in a masterwork that has taken 25 years to complete. Here is a sweeping--and highly personal--history of American film, from the birth of the talkies (beginning with The Jazz Singer and Al Jolson's memorable line "You ain't heard nothin' yet") to the decline of the studio system. By far the largest section of the book celebrates the work of the great American film directors, with giants such as John…

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List price: $30.99
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/20/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 592
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 1.46" tall
Weight: 1.980
Language: English



Introduction



The Hollywood Studios


The Studio Mystique


The Myth of Metro


The Panache of Paramount


Warner Brothers


20th Century-Fox


RKO


Universal


Columbia Pictures



Genres


The Musical


The Gangster Film


The Horror Film


The Screwball Comedy


The Western


The Film Noir


The War Film



The Directors


D.W. Griffith


King Vidor


Charles Chaplin


Buster Keaton


Harold Lloyd


John Ford


Josef von Sternberg


Alfred Hitchcock


Howard Hawks


Orson Welles


Ernest Lubitsch


Preston Sturges


Billy Wilder


Leo McCarey


George Cukor


William Wyler


Frank Capra


George Stevens


Frank Borzage


John Stahl


Max Ophuls



Actors and Actresses


Greta Garbo


James Cagney


Edward G. Robinson


Humphrey Bogart


Bette Davis


Cary Grant


Margaret Sullavan


Ingrid Bergman


Irene Dunne


Myrna Loy


Norma Shearer


Jean Harlow


Barbara Stanwyck


Claudette Colbert


W.C. Fields


The Marx Brothers


Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn


Clark Gable and Carole Lombard


Vivien Leigh



Guilty Pleasures


The B-Picture


Louise Brooks


Mary Astor


Anne Baxter


Wanda Hendrix


Gaslight


Lost Horizon


My Foolish Heart



Academy Awards: Nominations and Winners, 1927-1949



New York Film Critics Circle Awards, 1935-1949



Best Directors, 1927-1949



Best Performances, 1929-1949


Index of Films


Index of Names