The entertainment machine
Subtitle: American show business in the 20th century
By: Robert C. Toll.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1982
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
Subjects: Mass media -- United States.; Performing arts -- United States.; Popular culture -- United States.
Description: This lively, lavishly illustrated book explains the effects of the age of technology on American show business. Ranging over nearly a century, but as up-to-date as the latest box-office hits, the book traces the development of the major electronic media, then compares the treatment of popular genres in each of the different media.
Notes: Includes index.

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