Movie-made America : a social history of American movies / Robert Sklar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sklar, Robert.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--United States--History.

Motion pictures.

United States.

History.

Cinéma--États-Unis--Histoire.

Local Subjects:

Cinéma--États-Unis--Histoire.

Genre:

History.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

vii, 340 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Random House, [1975]

Contents:

Part 1: The rise of movie culture

The birth of a mass medium

Nickel madness

Edison's trust and how it got busted

D.W. Griffith and the forging of motion-picture art

Part 2: The movies in the age of mass culture

Hollywood and the dawning of the Aquarian Age

The silent film and the passionate life

Chaos, magic, physical genius and the art to silent comedy

Movie-made children

The house that Adolph Zukor built

Part 3: Mass culture in the age of movies

The moguls at bay and the censors' triumph

The golden age of turbulence and the golden age of order

The making of cultural myths: Walt Disney and Frank Capra

Selling movies overseas

The Hollywood gold rush

Part 4: The decline of the movie culture

Hollywood at war for America and at war with itself

The disappearing audience and the television crisis

Hollywood's collapse

The future of movies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-331) and index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0394483278

9780394483276

OCLC:

1176790