Overview
- Series
- Film and culture
Film and culture. - Format
- Book
- Published
- New York : Columbia University Press, c1999
- Locale
- United States
- Contents
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On the cusp of classical Hollywood cinema
Breadlines and box office lines : Hollywood in the nadir of the Great Depression
Preachment yarns : the politics of mere entertainment
Dictators and Democrats : the rage for order
Vice rewarded : the wages of cinematic sin
Criminal codes : gangsters unbound, felons in custody
Comic timing : cracking wise and wising up
News on screen : the vividness of mechanical immortality
Remote kinships : the geography of the expeditionary film
Primitive mating rituals : the color wheel of the racial adventure film
Nightmare pictures : the quality of gruesomeness
Classical Hollywood cinema : the world according to Joseph J. Breen. - Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-410) and indexes.
On the cusp of classical Hollywood cinema -- Breadlines and box office lines : Hollywood in the nadir of the Great Depression -- Preachment yarns : the politics of mere entertainment -- Dictators and Democrats : the rage for order -- Vice rewarded : the wages of cinematic sin -- Criminal codes : gangsters unbound, felons in custody -- Comic timing : cracking wise and wising up -- News on screen : the vividness of mechanical immortality -- Remote kinships : the geography of the expeditionary film -- Primitive mating rituals : the color wheel of the racial adventure film -- Nightmare pictures : the quality of gruesomeness -- Classical Hollywood cinema : the world according to Joseph J. Breen.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- External Link
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Electronic address (http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0b6c6-aa) not available when searched on Nov. 21, 2018.
- ISBN
- 0231110944
9780231110945 (cl. : alk. paper)
0231110952 (pa. : alk. paper)
9780231110952 (pa. : alk. paper) - Physical Description
- xiii, 430 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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