| #2623712 in Books | Princeton University Press | 1997-12-22 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 1.22 x6.39 x9.57l, | File Name: 0691032343 | 392 pages |
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Brilliant, unique|By jcd|No other book so thoroughly portrays the early Twentieth Century pre-Hollywood era of American film. Beyond that, the book persuasively sets those films within the social and political context of the period, and makes clear that the advent of the Hollywood studio system--the coming of industrialization and monopoly capitalism to the American film busin|From Library Journal|Ross (history, Univ. of Southern California) offers a thought-provoking examination of silent film and its social reverberations. This medium provided the earliest, cheapest, and most far-reaching form of entertainment to capture the public
This path-breaking book reveals how Hollywood became "Hollywood" and what that meant for the politics of America and American film. Working-Class Hollywood tells the story of filmmaking in the first three decades of the twentieth century, a time when going to the movies could transform lives and when the cinema was a battleground for control of American consciousness. Steven Ross documents the rise of a working-class film movement that challenged the do...
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