Grand Design: Hollywood as a Modern Business Enterprise, 1930-1939 Volume 5
(Book #5 in the History of the American Cinema Series)
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The advent of color, big musicals, the studio system, and the beginning of institutionalized censorship made the thirties the defining decade for Hollywood. The year 1939, celebrated as "Hollywood's greatest year," saw the release of such memorable films as Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, and Stagecoach. It was a time when the studios exercised nearly absolute control over their product as well as over such stars as Bette Davis, Clark Gable, and Humphrey Bogart. In this fifth volume of the award-winning series History of the American Cinema, Tino Balio examines every aspect of the filmmaking and film exhibition system as it matured during the Depression era.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0520203348
ISBN13:9780520203341
Release Date:January 1996
Publisher:University of California Press
Length:483 Pages
Weight:2.30 lbs.
Dimensions:1.2" x 7.0" x 10.0"
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Great volume among all 10 of the Series now published.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
Balio et al. assemble a fine addition to the Ten Volume Series of the History of American Cinema, conceived and edited by Charles Harpole, foremost film scholar and documentarian. No library, large or small, should be without all ten volumes in the Series because this is the definitive work on the subject.The Series is published by Scribner-Thomson-Gale company and by the University of California Press. You may have to order direct because these are not discounted trade books.
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