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Informationen zum Autor Tino Balio is Program Director of the Arts Institute and Professor of Communication Arts and Academics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he also served as Director of the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research from 1966 to 1982. He is the author of Hollywood in the Age of Television (1990), among other titles. Klappentext The advent of color, big musicals, the studio system, and the beginning of institutionalized censorship made the thirties the defining decade for Hollywood. The year 1939, celebrated as "Hollywood's greatest year," saw the release of such memorable films as "Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, " and "Stagecoach." It was a time when the studios exercised nearly absolute control over their product as well as over such stars as Bette Davis, Clark Gable, and Humphrey Bogart. In this fifth volume of the award-winning series "History of the American Cinema," Tino Balio examines every aspect of the filmmaking and film exhibition system as it matured during the Depression era. Zusammenfassung The advent of color, big musicals, the studio system, and the beginning of institutionalized censorship made the thirties the defining decade for Hollywood. In this fifth volume of the series "History of the American Cinema", the author examines various aspects of the filmmaking and film exhibition system as it matured during the Depression era. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Contributors 1 Introduction 2 Surviving the Great Depression 3 The Production Code and the Hays Office Richard Maltby 4 Feeding the Maw of Exhibition 5 Technological Change and Classical Film Style David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson 6 Selling Stars 7 Production Trends Prestige Pictures Musicals The Woman's Film Comedy Social Problem Films Horror Films 8 The B Film: Hollywood's Other Half Brian Taves 9 The Poetics and Politics of Nonfiction: Documentary Film Charles Wolfe 10 Avant-Garde Film ]an-Christopher Horak Appendixes: Variety's Top-grossing Films Major Academy Awards Film Daily's Ten Best Films List of Abbreviations Notes Bibliography General Index Index of Films ...
