American cinema of the 1930s : themes and variations /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Hark, Ina Rae
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2007.
Series:Screen decades.
Subjects:
Motion pictures > United States > History.
Cinéma > États-Unis > Histoire.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
Motion pictures
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1930 : Movies and social difference / Aaron Baker
  • 1931 : Movies and the voice / Cynthia Erb
  • 1932 : Movies and transgression / David Lugowski
  • 1933 : Movies and the New Deal in entertainment / Martin Rubin
  • 1934 : Movies and the marginalized / Charlene Regester
  • 1935 : Movies and the resistance to tyranny / Ina Rae Hark
  • 1936 : Movies and the possibility of transcendence / Susan Ohmer
  • 1937 : Movies and new constructions of the American star / Allen Larson
  • 1938 : Movies and whistling in the dark / Sam B. Girgus
  • 1939 : Movies and American culture in the annus mirabilis / Charles Maland
  • Select Academy Awards, 1930-1939.

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