Hollywood in Crisis: Cinema and American Society 1929-1939

ISBN-13: 9780415103145 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 272 str.

Colin Schindler; Colin Shindler

Opis

This detailed study of the workings of the American film industry during the 1930s looks at Hollywood as an agent of Roosevelt's New Deal, and the attempts film moguls and moviemakers made to withstand the political turmoil that threatened to engulf America. It illustrates how the studios and their products, from the glamour of MGM stars and escapist musicals to gangster movies and Westerns, even the radical films of the Warner studios, helped foster ideas of social unity and patriotism.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Snapshot; Chapter 2 Trouble in Paradise; Chapter 3 The Blue Eagle; Chapter 4 The Swimming Pool Reds; Chapter 5 Fanfare for the Common Man; Chapter 6 The Hays Office; Chapter 7 The Left-Handed Endeavour; Chapter 8 Cry of the City; Chapter 9 Good Citizenship and Good Picture-Making; Chapter 10 Black Fury; Chapter 11 Foreign Affairs; Chapter 12 Snapshot;

O autorze

Colin Shindler was born in Lancashire and educated at Bury Grammar School and Caius College, Cambridge. He is a television producer and has worked on many dramas from A Little Princess to Lovejoy, and wrote the screenplay for Buster. He is the author of Hollywood goes to War (1980). Colin lives in London with his American wife, two children and the neurosis which comes from supporting Manchester City.