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Movie-made America : a cultural history of American movies / Robert Sklar.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sklar, Robert, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--United States--History.
- Motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations
- Edition:
- Revised and updated.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, 1994.
- Contents:
- 1. The Birth of a Mass Medium
- 2. Nickel Madness
- 3. Edison's Trust and How It Got Busted
- 4. D.W. Griffith and the Forging of Motion-Picture Art
- 5. Hollywood and the Dawning of the Aquarian Age
- 6. The Silent Film and the Passionate Life
- 7. Chaos, Magic, Physical Genius and the Art of Silent Comedy
- 8. Movie-Made Children
- 9. The House That Adolph Zukor Built
- 10. The Moguls at Bay and the Censors' Triumph
- 11. The Golden Age at Turbulence and the Golden Age of Order
- 12. The Making of Cultural Myths: Walt Disney and Frank Capra
- 13. Selling Movies Overseas
- 14. The Hollywood Gold Rush
- 15. Hollywood at War for America and at War with Itself
- 16. The Disappearing Audience and the Television Crisis
- 17. Hollywood's Collapse
- 18. The Promise of Personal Film
- 19. Nadir and Revival
- 20. Hollywood and the Age of Reagan
- 21. From Myth to Memory
- 22. Independent Images.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 11, 2019).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Sklar, Robert. Movie-made America.
- ISBN:
- 9780307756848
- 030775684X
- Publisher Number:
- 99995919562
- EB00171101 Recorded Books
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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