Series: Routledge Library EditionsThis collection brings together journal articles, published essays, book chapters and excerpts which explore Hollywood as a social, economic, industrial, aesthetic an
Boom and Bust traces the movie industry through the momentous decade of the 1940s. It discusses changes in the structure of the studio system--including the shift to independent production--and the do
The sixth volume in a series charting the development of the American film industry covers the period of 1939-1949, when the industry came to grips with the development of the documentary, a shift to
This book assembles an unprecedented selection of film art that spans Eastwood's entire career - from the 1950s to the present. Culling together over 400 pieces amassed by collector David Frangioni,
Clint Eastwood is not only a man. He is a nameless vigilante, a vengeful detective, a bare-knuckle boxer, a Secret Service agent, and countless other definitive screen archetypes now embedded in our
In this lively account of the Hollywood studio system, Schatz (Radio-TV-Film, University of Texas, Austin) shows how artistry and business combined to produce one of cinema's golden ages. Focusing on
Edna Ferber's Hollywood reveals one of the most influential artistic relationships of the twentieth century--the four-decade partnership between historical novelist Edna Ferber and the Hollywood studi