Movie-made America : a cultural history of American movies /
Sklar, Robert
Movie-made America : a cultural history of American movies / Robert Sklar - Rev. and updated - New York: Vintage Books, 1994 - XI, 417 S. : Ill.
pt. 1: 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 -- pt. 2: 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 -- pt. 3: Mass culture in the age of movies --
The moguls at bay and the censors' triumph -- The golden age at turbulence and the golden age of order -- The making of cultural myths: Walt Disney and Frank Capra -- Selling movies overseas -- The Hollywood gold rush -- pt. 4: 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 promise of personal film --
Nadir and revival -- Hollywood and the age of Reagan --
From myth to memory -- Independent images.
"Ever since Edison's peep shows first captivated urban audiences, film has had a revolutionary impact on American society, transforming culture from the bottom up, radically revising attitudes toward pleasure and sexuality, and at the same time, cementing the myth of the American dream. No book has measured film's impact more clearly or comprehensively than Movie-Made America. This vastly readable and richly illustrated volume examines film as art form, technological innovation, big business, and cultural bellwether. It takes in stars from Douglas Fairbanks to Sly Stallone; auteurs from D.W. Griffith to Martin Scorsese and Spike Lee; and genres from the screwball comedy of the 1930s to the "hard body" movies of the 1980s to the independent films of the 1990s. Combining panoramic sweep with detailed commentaries on hundreds of individual films, Movie-Made America is a must for any motion picture enthusiast." -- Publisher's description
0679755497 9780679755494 0394721209 9780394721200
Cine --Historia--Estados Unidos
Películas
USA Film Geschichte
PN 1993.5 / S628m 1994
791.430973
Movie-made America : a cultural history of American movies / Robert Sklar - Rev. and updated - New York: Vintage Books, 1994 - XI, 417 S. : Ill.
pt. 1: 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 -- pt. 2: 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 -- pt. 3: Mass culture in the age of movies --
The moguls at bay and the censors' triumph -- The golden age at turbulence and the golden age of order -- The making of cultural myths: Walt Disney and Frank Capra -- Selling movies overseas -- The Hollywood gold rush -- pt. 4: 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 promise of personal film --
Nadir and revival -- Hollywood and the age of Reagan --
From myth to memory -- Independent images.
"Ever since Edison's peep shows first captivated urban audiences, film has had a revolutionary impact on American society, transforming culture from the bottom up, radically revising attitudes toward pleasure and sexuality, and at the same time, cementing the myth of the American dream. No book has measured film's impact more clearly or comprehensively than Movie-Made America. This vastly readable and richly illustrated volume examines film as art form, technological innovation, big business, and cultural bellwether. It takes in stars from Douglas Fairbanks to Sly Stallone; auteurs from D.W. Griffith to Martin Scorsese and Spike Lee; and genres from the screwball comedy of the 1930s to the "hard body" movies of the 1980s to the independent films of the 1990s. Combining panoramic sweep with detailed commentaries on hundreds of individual films, Movie-Made America is a must for any motion picture enthusiast." -- Publisher's description
0679755497 9780679755494 0394721209 9780394721200
Cine --Historia--Estados Unidos
Películas
USA Film Geschichte
PN 1993.5 / S628m 1994
791.430973