Movie-Made America: A Cultural History of American Movies
de Sklar, Robert
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- 9780679755494
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Here is a lively, highly informative history of American movies that, as Professor Frank Freidel of Harvard writes, combines "social history, economics and a precise and effective sense of film criticism." Movies were the first twentieth-century mass medium, and largely by chance, the first big American movie audiences and moviemakers came from the immigrant, working-class segments of the population. Movies therefore became a challenge to American big business and American culture, both of which had been controlled by the Establishment. This, Sklar suggests, is one reason why, from their very beginning, movies have been hounded by censorship. This book does three things: it traces the influence movies had on American society during the years when innumerable Americans young and old modeled themselves and their behavior on their favorite movie stars and movies; it shows the effect of the movie industry on the American economy; and it offers fresh and provocative interpretations of such movie milestones as D. W. Griffith's early epics, silent comedy (Charlie Chaplin, Fatty Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd), the two golden ages of 1930s movies, Walt Disney cartoons and Frank Capra's social comedies. It explains the movies' downfall in the 1950s, which, Sklar contends, was not due solely to television, and it suggests the movies' possible future. Exploring simultaneously Hollywood aesthetics, economics and culture, it offers a fascinating, comprehensive picture of the role that movies have played in American life.
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- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787 (AU)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 0122359
- Título
- Movie-Made America: A Cultural History of American Movies
- Autor
- Sklar, Robert
- Ilustrador
- Photographic and Illustrations
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Softcover
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good Condition
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 0679755497
- ISBN 13
- 9780679755494
- Editorial
- Vintage Books
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1994
- Palabras clave
- BZDB2 America, cultural history, Hollywood, movies Sociology & Culture; History; United States; Film, Radio & Television. Photographic and Illustrations Unbranded ISBN: 0679755497 EAN: 9780679755494 Sklar, Robert Movie-Made America: A Cultural H
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