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Movie-Made America: A Cultural History of American Movies » (REV)
Authors: Robert Sklar
ISBN-13: 9780679755494, ISBN-10: 0679755497
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Date Published: December 1994
Edition: REV
Author Biography: Robert Sklar
Book Synopsis
Hailed as the definitive work upon its original publication in 1975 and now extensively revised and updated by the author, this vastly absorbing and richly illustrated book examines film as an art form, technological innovation, big business, and shaper of American values. 80 black-and-white photos.
Publishers Weekly
Sklar has revised and updated this imposing, wide-ranging analysis of American cinema, first published in 1975; 80 b&w photos. (Dec.)
Table of Contents
| Preface to the Updated Edition | ||
| Preface | ||
| 1 | The Birth of a Mass Medium | 3 |
| 2 | Nickel Madness | 18 |
| 3 | Edison's Trust and How It Got Busted | 33 |
| 4 | D. W. Griffith and the Forging of Motion-Picture Art | 48 |
| 5 | Hollywood and the Dawning of the Aquarian Age | 67 |
| 6 | The Silent Film and the Passionate Life | 86 |
| 7 | Chaos, Magic, Physical Genius and the Art of Silent Comedy | 104 |
| 8 | Movie-Made Children | 122 |
| 9 | The House That Adolph Zukor Built | 141 |
| 10 | The Moguls at Bay and the Censors' Triumph | 161 |
| 11 | The Golden Age at Turbulence and the Golden Age of Order | 175 |
| 12 | The Making of Cultural Myths: Walt Disney and Frank Capra | 195 |
| 13 | Selling Movies Overseas | 215 |
| 14 | The Hollywood Gold Rush | 228 |
| 15 | Hollywood at War for America and at War with Itself | 249 |
| 16 | The Disappearing Audience and the Television Crisis | 269 |
| 17 | Hollywood's Collapse | 286 |
| 18 | The Promise of Personal Film | 305 |
| 19 | Nadir and Revival | 321 |
| 20 | Hollywood and the Age of Reagan | 339 |
| 21 | From Myth to Memory | 357 |
| 22 | Independent Images | 373 |
| Notes or Sources | 383 | |
| Bibliography | 399 | |
| Index | 405 |
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