Cinema, politics, and society in America
By: edited by Philip Davies and Brian Neve.
Contributors: Davies, Philip, 1948-; Neve, Brian.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Manchester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
Subjects: Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Philip Davies and Brian Neve; title: The mind of the mob : Hollywood and popular culture in the 1930s / P.H. Melling; title: The political economy of Hollywood : the studio system / Richard Maltby; title: The nation in crisis : Hollywood's response to the 1940s / Ralph Willett; title: Made for each other : the melodrama of Hollywood and the House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1947 / Richard Maltby; title: The 1950s : the case of Elia Kazan and On the waterfront / Brian Neve; title: A growing independence / Philip Davies; title: The American western and American society / Christopher Frayling; title: The working class goes to Hollywood / Leonard Quart and Albert Auster; title: Blacks in American film / Mary Ellison; title: Keystone to Kojak / Robert Reiner; title: Blood on the Nash Ambassador : cars in American films / Eric Mottram.