A History of American Movies A Film-by-Film Look at the Art, Craft, and Business of Cinema

by Monaco, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780810874336
• ISBN10: 0810874334
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-05-05
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Summary

A History of American Movies provides a survey of the narrative feature film from the 1920s to the present. The book focuses on 170 of the most highly regarded and recognized feature films selected by the Hollywood establishment: each Oscar winner for Best Picture, as well as those voted the greatest by members of the American Film Institute.

Author Biography

Paul Monaco is Professor of cinema/video at Montana State University. He is the author of Understanding Society, Culture, and Television (2000) and The Sixties: 1960-1969 (2003) in the History of American Cinema series.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Classic Hollywood, 1927-1948
Establishing Hollywood	p. 3
Early Synchronous Sound	p. 23
Classic Hollywood Takes Form	p. 43
Banner Years	p. 59
Red, White, Blue, and Noir	p. 83
Postwar Triumphs and Reversals	p. 97
Hollywood in Transition, 1949-1974
Postwar Unravelings	p. 115
Declining Audiences and Initial Responses	p. 141
Hollywood on the Ropes	p. 161
Indications of Revival	p. 179
Conglomerate Control, Movie Brats, and Creativity	p. 195
New Hollywood, 1975-2009
Origins of Hollywood Divided	p. 217
Mixed Styles, Mixed Messages	p. 233
Hollywood in the 1980s	p. 245
New Hollywood Enters the Digital Age	p. 273
Hollywood Enters the Twenty-First Century	p. 313
Conclusion	p. 335
Selected Bibliography	p. 339
Index	p. 341
About the Author	p. 349
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