American Cinema of the 1930s : : Themes and Variations /

American Cinema of the 1930s : : Themes and Variations / / ed. by Ina Rae Hark.

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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 ar...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Baker, Aaron,
Erb, Cynthia,
Girgus, Sam B.,
Hark, Ina Rae,
Larson, Allen,
Lugowski, David,
Maland, Charles,
Ohmer, Susan,
Regester, Charlene,
Rubin, Martin,
HerausgeberIn:
Hark, Ina Rae,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2007]
©2007
Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
Series:Screen Decades: American Culture/America
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.) :; 33
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Timeline: The 1930s
  • Introduction: Movies and the 1930s
  • 1930 Movies and Social Difference
  • 1931 Movies and the Voice
  • 1932 Movies and Transgression
  • 1933 Movies and the New Deal in Entertainment
  • 1934 Movies and the Marginalized
  • 1935 Movies and the Resistance to Tyranny
  • 1936 Movies and the Possibility of Transcendence
  • 1937 Movies and New Constructions of the American Star
  • 1938 Movies and Whistling in the Dark
  • 1939 Movies and American Culture in the Annus Mirabilis
  • Select Academy Awards, 1930 -1939
  • Works Cited and Consulted
  • Contributors
  • Index

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