Working-Class Hollywood : : Silent Film and the Shaping of Class in America / / Steven J. Ross.
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 liv...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©1998 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (392 p.) :; 38 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- PART I: THE RISE OF THE MOVIES: POLITICAL FILMMAKING AND THE WORKING CLASS
- Introduction
- 1. Going to the Movies: Leisure, Class, and Danger in the Early Twentieth Century
- 2. Visualizing the Working Class: Cinema and Politics before Hollywood
- 3. The Good, the Bad, and the Violent: Class Conflict and the Labor-Capital Genre
- 4. Making a Pleasure of Agitation: The Rise of the Worker Film Movement
- PART II: THE RISE OF HOLLYWOOD: FROM WORKING CLASS TO MIDDLE CLASS
- 5. When Russia Invaded America: Hollywood, War, and the Movies
- 6. Struggles for the Screen: The Revival of the Worker Film Movement
- 7. Fantasy and Politics: Moviegoing and Movies in the 1920s
- 8. Lights Out: The Decline of Labor Filmmaking and the Triumph of Hollywood
- Epilogue The Movies Talk But What Do They Say?
- Appendixes I. Select Filmography
- II. Sources and Methods for Writing Film History
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Index