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Index and bibliography included. Revision of thesis (Ph. D.) - University of Pennsylvania, 1979.

From Peep Show to Palace recounts the enchanting early years of film, beginning with the primitive motion of the "magic lantern" in the fifteenth century and continuing, most significantly, with the explosion of research from 1893 to 1913, when the modern motion picture was born. Respected film critic David Robinson offers this vivid account of the haphazard process, "like the assembly of the pieces of a puzzle," which was the birth of American film....

An overview of American studio filmmaking that examines its distinct mode of film practice, in both production and style, from 1917 through 1960.

Bio/Pics is the first comprehensive study of a once important film genre, the biographical film. Using previously unavailable archival materials from Twentieth Century-Fox, Warner Bros., MGM, and RKO studios, as well as censorship files from the Production Code Administration, George Custen argues that, through these films, Hollywood manufactured a nearly monochromatic view of history that was systematically distorted in regard to race, gender, nationality,...

Includes information on Woody Allen, Robert Altman, Asian films, Brian de Plama, European cinema, Alfred Hitchcock, Hong Kong films, Sam Peckinpah, Arthur Penn, Otto Preminger, Brett Ratner, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Oliver Stone, Orson Welles, American Graffiti, At Long Last Love, A Beautiful Mind, Bonnie and Clyde, Chinatown, Citizen Kane, The Godfather, Jaws, Jerry Maguire, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Matrix trilogy, Memento, Raiders of...

Mordden illuminates for us how the style of each Hollywood studio (RKO, MGM, Paramount, Warner Brothers, Universal, Fox) was primarily dictated by the personality, philosophy, and attitudes of its presiding mogul--and how all these facts affected the work and careers of individual actors, directors, writers, and technicians, and the success of the studio in general. Full of anecdotes and incident, this book is both an authoritative exploration and...

This biography of Samuel "Roxy" Rothafel tells the story of a seminal figure in the early film and radio industries who was said to be instrumental to the development of film exhibition and commercial broadcasting, the development of movie scores, and a convergent entertainment industry.

Developed to accompany the Annenberg-funded telecourse American Cinema, and written under the aegis of The New York Center for Visual History, this text offers a fascinating look at the interplay between the movie industry and mass culture in America. Ideal for film appreciation and film and culture courses found in Cinema Studies, English, History, American Studies, or other departments, American Cinema/American Culture first examines the industry,...

The inside story of the AOL Time Warner merger goes behind the scenes of both companies to profile corporate moguls Gerald Levin and Steve Case and to examine the short-and long-term implications of the business deal.