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List of Contributors | p. ix |
List of Illustrations | p. xi |
General Introduction | p. xii |
American cinema: history, industry, and interpretation | p. 1 |
American cinema and film history | p. 1 |
History and cinema technology | p. 12 |
Hollywood as industry | p. 19 |
Early American film | p. 29 |
Classical Hollywood film and melodrama | p. 46 |
Readings: Casablanca | p. 57 |
Casablanca | p. 61 |
Post-classical Hollywood | p. 63 |
Critical concepts | p. 84 |
Authorship and Hollywood | p. 84 |
Reading | p. 99 |
Genre and Hollywood | p. 101 |
Reading | p. 113 |
The star system and Hollywood | p. 116 |
Politics and society | p. 128 |
Hollywood film and society | p. 128 |
Reading: Hollywood and ideology | p. 137 |
Film policy: Hollywood and beyond | p. 139 |
Hollywood and the world | p. 145 |
List of Picture Sources and Readings | p. 156 |
Index of Selected Names and Film Titles | p. 157 |
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