Postwar Hollywood: 1946-1962
Book Details
Author(s)
Drew Casper
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN / ASIN
1405150750
ISBN-13
9781405150750
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#1,094,763
Category
Performing Arts
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
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Description
Postwar Hollywood is a comprehensive history of the American film industry, from 1946-1962.
- A comprehensive introductory textbook exploring the unique period in the history of the film industry after World War II
- Examines the cultural history, business practices, new technologies, censorship standards, emerging genres, and styles of post-war cinema
- Chronicles the restructuring of Hollywood cinema against the backdrop of the major political, economic, and social changes taking place after World War II
- Features in-depth discussions of important films from Picnic, The Heiress, and From Here to Eternity, to Cat On A Hot Tin Roof and Love Me or Leave Me
- Illustrates the culture/filmmaking interface, and demonstrates the triumphs and failures of Hollywood's new methods of business
