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Hollywood quarterly : film culture in postwar America, 1945-1957 / edited by Eric Smoodin and Ann Martin.
LIBRA - Special PN1993.5.U6 H5917 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--United States.
- Motion pictures.
- United States.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 394 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California, [2002]
- Summary:
- A collection of essays from the Hollywood Quarterly, the first long running film and media journal in the United States which was founded in 1947 by lefty Hollywood filmmakers and Southern California intellectuals.
- Contents:
- Introduction : The Hollywood Quarterly, 1945-1957 / Eric Smoodin Part 1. The Avant-Garde
- Experimental Cinema in America, Part One : 1921-1941 / Lewis Jacobs
- Experimental Cinema in America, Part Two : The Postwar Revival / Lewis Jacobs
- The Avant-Garde Film Seen from Within / Hans Richter
- Cinema 16 : A Showcase for the Nonfiction Film / Amos Vogel Part 2. Animation
- Animation Learns a New Language / John Hubley and Zachary Schwartz
- Music and the Animated Cartoon / Chuck Jones
- Notes on Animated Sound / Norman McLaren
- Mr. Magoo as Public Dream / Milton J. Rosenberg Part 3. Documentary
- Postwar Patterns / John Grierson
- The Documentary and Hollywood / Philip Dunne
- Time Flickers Out : Notes on the Passing of the March of Time / Raymond Fielding Part 4. Radio
- The Case of David Smith : A Script, with Commentary by Sam Moore, Franklin Fearing, and Cal Kuhl / Abraham Polonsky
- Radio's Attraction for Housewives / Ruth Palter
- A New Kind of Diplomacy / Gene King Part 5. Practice
- A Costume Problem : From Shot to Stage to Screen / Edith Head
- Performance under Pressure / Alexander Knox
- Designing The Heiress / Harry Horner
- The Limitations of Television / Rudy Bretz Part 6. Television
- Hollywood in the Television Age / Samuel Goldwyn
- You and Television / Lyman Bryson and Edward R. Murrow
- Children's Television Habits and Preferences / May V. Seagoe
- How to Look at Television / T.W. Adorno Part 7. The Hollywood Picture
- Why Wait for Posterity? / Iris Barry
- Hollywood : Illusion and Reality / John Howard Lawson
- Negro Stereotypes on the Screen / Leon H. Hardwick
- Today's Hero : A Review / John Houseman
- An Exhibitor Begs for "B's" / Arthur L. Mayer
- A Word of Caution for the Intelligent Consumer of Motion Pictures / Franklin Fearing
- There's Really No Business Like Show Business / Jay E. Gordon
- There's Still No Business Like It / Jean Hersholt [and others]
- Hollywood's Foreign Correspondents / Harva Kaaren Sprager Part 8. Scenes from Abroad
- Advanced Training for Film Workers : Russia / Jay Leyda
- Advanced Training for Film Workers : France / Charles Boyer
- The Global Film / Vsevolod Pudovkin
- The Postwar French Cinema / Georges Sadoul
- When in Rome ... / Hugh Gray Part 9. Notes and Communications
- J'Accuse / Pierre Descaves
- Je Confirme / Robert Joseph
- The Cinematheque Francaise / Henri Langlois
- Jean Vigo / Siegfried Kracauer
- Two Views of a Director
- Billy Wilder / Herbert G. Luft and Charles Brackett
- Dialogue between the Moviegoing Public and a Witness for Jean Cocteau / Raymond Jean.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0520232739
- 9780520232730
- 0520232747
- 9780520232747
- OCLC:
- 49551261
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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