num_pages: 495
description: This dazzling story of Hollywood during the decade of its greatest success is a social and cultural history of the movie capital's golden age. Its cast includes actors, writers, musicians and composers, producers and directors, racketeers and labor leaders, journalists and politicians in the turbulent decade from World War II to Korea.
language: English
title: City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s
titlecomplete: City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s
genres: Historical, 20th Century, Media Tie In, History, Pop Culture, Biography, American History, Film, Nonfiction, Art
ratings_count: 964
publisher: University of California Press