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Movie-made America : a cultural history of American movies / Robert Sklar.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Vintage Books, 1976, c1975.Description: vii, 340 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0394721209
  • 9780394721200
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN1993.5.U6 S53 1976
Contents:
The rise of movie culture. The birth of a mass medium -- Nickel madness -- Edison's trust and how it got busted -- D.W. Griffith and the forging of motion-picture art -- The movies in the age of mass culture. Hollywood and the dawning of the Aquarian Age -- The silent film and the passionate life -- Chaos, magic, physical genius and the art of silent comedy -- Movie-made children -- The house that Adolph Zukor built -- Mass culture in the age of movies. The moguls at bay and the censors' triumph -- The golden age of turbulence and the golden age of order -- The making of cultural myths: Walt Disney and Frank Capra -- Selling movies overseas -- The Hollywood gold rush -- The decline of movie culture. Hollywood at war for America and at war with itself -- The disappearing audience and the television crisis -- Hollywood's collapse -- The future of movies.
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Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks PN1993.5.U6S53 1976 1 Available 33710001139927

Bibliography: p. 319-331.

Includes index.

The rise of movie culture. The birth of a mass medium -- Nickel madness -- Edison's trust and how it got busted -- D.W. Griffith and the forging of motion-picture art -- The movies in the age of mass culture. Hollywood and the dawning of the Aquarian Age -- The silent film and the passionate life -- Chaos, magic, physical genius and the art of silent comedy -- Movie-made children -- The house that Adolph Zukor built -- Mass culture in the age of movies. The moguls at bay and the censors' triumph -- The golden age of turbulence and the golden age of order -- The making of cultural myths: Walt Disney and Frank Capra -- Selling movies overseas -- The Hollywood gold rush -- The decline of movie culture. Hollywood at war for America and at war with itself -- The disappearing audience and the television crisis -- Hollywood's collapse -- The future of movies.