Overview
Boom and Bust traces the movie industry through the momentous decade of the 1940s. It discusses changes in the structure of the studio system-including the shift to independent production-and the dominant stars, genres, and production trends through the period.
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Author: Thomas Schatz
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Volume: 6
Dimensions:
Width: 17.80cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 25.40cm
Weight: 0.998kg
ISBN: 9780520221307
ISBN 10: 0520221303
Pages: 582
Publication Date: 23 November 1999
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Contributors 1 Introduction PART 1: THE PREWAR ERA 2 The Motion Picture Industry in 1940-1941 3 The Hollywood Studio System in 1940-1941 DUALS, B's, AND THE INDUSTRY DISCOURSE ABOUT ITs AUDIENCE 4 Prewar Stars, Genres, and Production Trends PART 2: THE WAR ERA 5 The Motion Picture Industry During World War II 6 The Hollywood Studio System, 1942-1945 SELLING MILDRED PIERCE: A CASE STUDY Mary Beth Haralovich 7 Wartime Stars, Genres, and Production Trends 8 Regulating the Screen: The Office of War Information and the Production Code Administration Clayton R. Koppes PART 3: THE POST\VAR ERA 9 The Postwar Motion Picture Industry SAG, HUAC, AND POSTWAR HOLLYWOOD Gorham Kindem 10 The Hollywood Studio System, 1946-1949 11 Postwar Stars, Genres, and Production Trends PART 4: ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENTS 12 Docurnenting the 1940s Thomas Doherty 13 Television and Hollywood in the 1940s Christopher Anderson 14 Experimental and Avant-Garde Cinema in the 1940s Lauren Rabinovitz Appendix 1 Total Number of Theaters in the United States, 1940-1950 Appendix 2 Average Weekly Attendance in the United States, 1940-1950 Appendix 3 Number of Feature Films Released in the United States, 1940-1949 Appendix 4 Major Studio Revenues and Profits, 1940-1949 Appendix 5 Top Box-Office Pictures, 1940-1949 Appendix 6 Exhibitors' Poll of Top Ten Box-Office Stars, 1940-1949 Appendix 7 Major Academy Awards, 1940-1949 Appendix 8 National Board of Review, 1940-1949 Bibliography General Index Index of Films
Reviews
Boom and Bust constitutes an essential background for anyone interested in this complicated decade. . . . By dealing with break and continuity together, Schatz is able to tell several histories of American film: the history of the cinema's recruitment by politics, but also the history of industrial practices that move at their own irreducible speed. --Dana Polan, Film Quarterly
""""Boom and Bust constitutes an essential background for anyone interested in this complicated decade. . . . By dealing with break and continuity together, Schatz is able to tell several histories of American film: the history of the cinema's recruitment by politics, but also the history of industrial practices that move at their own irreducible speed.""--Dana Polan, ""Film Quarterly
Author Information
Thomas Schatz is Philip G. Warner Professor of Communication at the University of Texas, Austin. His previous books include The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era (1996) and Hollywood Film Genres (1980). He is a regular contributor to various television programs on film, including the PBS series The American Cinema.
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