Literature

MOVIE-MADE AMERICA

Management No. BFM011740

Basic Information

Contents: PREFACE = ⅴ PART 1: THE RISE OF MOVIE CULTURE 1. The Birth of a Mass Medium = 3 2. Nickel Madness = 18 3. Edison's Trust and How It Got Busted = 33 4. D. W. Griffith and the Forging of Motion-Picture Art = 48 PART 2: THE MOVIES IN THE AGE OF MASS CULTURE 5. Hollywood and the Dawning of the Aquarian Age = 67 6. The Silent Film and the Passionate Life = 86 7. Chaos, Magic, Physical Genius and the Art of Silent Comedy = 104 8. Movie-Made Children = 122 9. The House That Adolph Zukor Built = 141 PART 3: MASS CULTURE IN THE AGE OF MOVIES 10. The Moguls at Bay and the Censors' Triumph = 161 11. The Golden Age of Turbulence and the Golden Age of Order = 175 12. The Making of Cultural Myths: Walt Disney and Frank Capra = 195 13. Selling Movies Overseas = 215 14. The Hollywood Gold Rush = 228 PART 4: THE DECLINE OF MOVIE CULTURE 15. Hollywood at War for America and at War with Itself = 249 16. The Disappearing Audience and the Television Crisis = 269 17. Hollywood's Collapse = 286 18. The Future of Movies = 305 NOTES ON SOURCES = 319 INDEX = 333