Decoding the Movies : Hollywood in the 1930s /: Hollywood in the 1930s. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Prof. Richard Maltby.
• Authors: Prof, Maltby, Richard, Prof
• Contents: Part 1: Decodings; Introduction: “What the Hell, It’s Only History …”; 2 “A Brief Romantic Interlude”: Dick and Jane Go To Threeand- a-Half Seconds of the Classical Hollywood Cinema; 3 “As Close to Real Life as Hollywood Ever Gets”: Headline Pictures, Topical Movies, Editorial Cinema and Studio Realism in the 1930s Part 2: Patriarchs; 4 “Just Another Good Program Picture from Warners”: The Misadventures of Barbara Stanwyck and Friedrich Nietzsche at Warner Bros., 1933; 5 Clark Gable, the Production Code and the Recreation of the Patriarch: It Happened One Night; 6 Sex and Shirley Temple Part 3: Criminals; 7 Criminal Entertainers: Al Capone, Howard Hughes and the Production Code; 8 “Gangland as It Really Is”: James Cagney, Horatio Alger and the Natural History of Delinquent Careers; 9 “Any Resemblance to Actual Persons, Living or Dead …”: Martin Mooney, Edward G. Robinson and the Incorporation of Dutch Schultz 10 Afterword Notes; Select Bibliography; Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: University of Exeter Press
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource (496 pages)
• Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies; Popular culture; Media studies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781905816460; 1905816464
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