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Working-class Hollywood : silent film and the shaping of class in America /
This pathbreaking book reveals how Hollywood became "Hollywood" and what that meant for the politics of America and American film. Working-Class Hollywood tells the story of filmmaking in the first three decades of the twentieth century, a time when going to the movies could transform live...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©1998.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover Page
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I: The Rise of The Movies: Political Filmmaking and the Working Class
- Introduction
- 1. Going to the MoviesLeisure, Class, and Danger in the Early Twentieth Century
- 2. Visualizing the Working Class: Cinema and Politics before Hollywood
- 3. The Good, the Bad, and the Violent: Class Conflict and the Labor-Capital Genre
- 4. Making a Pleasure of Agitation: The Rise of the Worker Film Movement
- Part II: The Rise of Hollywood: From Working Class to Middle Class
- 5. When Russia Invaded America: Hollywood, War, and the Movies
- 6. Struggles for the Screen: The Revival of the Worker Film Movement
- 7. Fantasy and Politics: Moviegoing and Movies in the 1920s
- 8. Lights Out: The Decline of Labor Filmmaking and the Triumph of Hollywood
- Epilogue: The Movies Talk But What Do They Say?
- Appendixes I: Select Filmography
- Appendixes II: Sources and Methods for Writing Film History
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Index