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American cinema of the 1930s : themes and variations /
Probably no decade saw as many changes in the Hollywood film industry and its product as the 1930s did. At the beginning of the decade, the industry was still struggling with the transition to talking pictures. Gangster films and naughty comedies starring Mae West were popular in urban areas, but ar...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
©2007.
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| Colección: | Screen decades.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Probably no decade saw as many changes in the Hollywood film industry and its product as the 1930s did. At the beginning of the decade, the industry was still struggling with the transition to talking pictures. Gangster films and naughty comedies starring Mae West were popular in urban areas, but aroused threats of censorship in the heartland. Whether the film business could survive the economic effects of the Crash was up in the air. By 1939, popularly called?Hollywood?s Greatest Year,? films like Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz used both color and sound to spectacular effect, and re. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 279 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-265) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813543031 0813543037 1780348738 9781780348735 9786611151416 6611151419 |