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Hirsch, Foster, author.
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Motion picture industry -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century.
Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Nineteen fifties.
United States -- History -- 1945-
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Hollywood and the mo...
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Hollywood and the movies of the Fifties : the collapse of the studio system, the thrill of Cinerama, and the invasion of the ultimate body snatcher--television / Foster Hirsch.
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Hirsch, Foster, author.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.
Subjects
Motion picture industry -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century.
Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Nineteen fifties.
United States -- History -- 1945-
ISBN:
9780307958921 (hardcover) :
0307958922 hardcover
Description:
xx, 639 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Contents:
Showdown at Tiffany's -- The Fox -- A madman in charge -- All for love -- The man you love to hate -- The stix nix hix pix ... or do they? -- Who Is Y. Frank Freeman? -- Last man standing -- New game in town -- "Ladies and gentlemen, this is Cinerama!" -- "A lion in your lap, a lover in your arms" -- The miracle mirror screen -- The finer things/the bottom feeders -- Race films -- (Out of sight) -- At the Waldorf -- The red menace! -- On the other hand -- The senior class (I) -- The senior class (II) -- New faces (I) -- New faces (II) -- Darker than night -- The time for parting -- How do pharaohs speak? -- Magnificent obsessions -- The long distance runners -- In the beginning -- Epilogue : the lessons of the past.
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"A comprehensive study of the changing attitudes of America in the 1950s as reflected by the films of that decade"--Provided by publisher.
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Hawaii State Library
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384.83097 Hi
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