Research Catalog

Title

Movie-made America : a cultural history of American movies / Robert Sklar.

Author

Sklar, Robert.

Publication

New York : Vintage Books, 1994.

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Details

Description

xi, 417 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• This vastly readable and richly illustrated volume examines film as art form, technological innovation, big business, and cultural bellwether. It takes in stars from Douglas Fairbanks to Sly Stallone; auteurs from D. W. Griffith to Martin Scorsese and Spike Lee; and genres from the screwball comedy of the 1930s to the "hard body" movies of the 1980s to the independent films of the 1990s.
• Combining panoramic sweep with detailed commentaries on hundreds of individual films, Movie-Made America is a must for any motion picture enthusiast.

Subject

• Motion pictures > United States > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN

• 0679755497 (pbk.)
• 9780679755494 (pbk.)

LCCN

95130897

OCLC

• 32511422
• ocm32511422

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries