Hollywood 1938 : motion pictures' greatest year /

N Hollywood 1938, Catherine Jurca brings to light a tumultuous year of crisis that has been neglected in histories of the studio era. With attendance in decline, negative publicity about stars that were "poison at the box office," and a spate of bad films, industry executives decided that...

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Tác giả chính: Jurca, Catherine, 1964-
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Berkeley : University of California Press ©2012.
Loạt:Fletcher Jones Foundation humanities imprint.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pp0ps
Mục lục:
  • Introduction: Hollywood looks at its audience
  • The campaign. Annus horribilis
  • Goldwyn's folly
  • Such a thing as bad publicity
  • The moviegoing habit
  • Exhibitors, the movie quiz contest, and a divided industry. The minds of exhibitors
  • The carrot and the stick
  • The quiz contest on the ground
  • What the contest did for me
  • Independents rebel
  • The campaign and the press. The film industry speaks its mind
  • Marginal moviegoers
  • The gossip columnists
  • The dailies have their say
  • The films. "The finest array of productions"
  • Ninety-four films
  • The death of glamour
  • Human films
  • The human side of screwball
  • You can't take it with you
  • Four daughters
  • Boys town
  • Marie Antoinette
  • That's entertainment
  • The fourth estate
  • Conclusion: motion pictures' worst year.