American cinema of the 1930s : themes and variations /

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Imprint:New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2007.
Description:1 online resource (xiii, 279 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Screen decades
Screen decades.
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URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11162267
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Other authors / contributors:Hark, Ina Rae.
ISBN:9780813543031
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-265) and index.
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Summary:Probably no decade saw as many changes in the Hollywood film industry and its product as the 1930s did. At the beginning of the decade, the industry was still struggling with the transition to talking pictures. Gangster films and naughty comedies starring Mae West were popular in urban areas, but aroused threats of censorship in the heartland. Whether the film business could survive the economic effects of the Crash was up in the air. By 1939, popularly called?Hollywood?s Greatest Year,? films like Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz used both color and sound to spectacular effect, and re.
Other form:Print version: American cinema of the 1930s. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2007 9780813540818 081354081X
Standard no.:10.36019/9780813543031.