Postwar Hollywood: 1946-1962 by Casper, Drew

Postwar Hollywood: 1946-1962 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781405150750)

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Postwar Hollywood: 1946-1962 by Casper, Drew

Postwar Hollywood: 1946-1962

$54.95
Postwar Hollywood: 1946-1962 by Casper, Drew

Postwar Hollywood: 1946-1962

$54.95
Format: Paperback
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Postwar Hollywood is a comprehensive history of the American film industry, from 1946-1962.

  • A comprehensive introductory textbook exploring the unique period in the history of the film industry after World War II
  • Examines the cultural history, business practices, new technologies, censorship standards, emerging genres, and styles of post-war cinema
  • Chronicles the restructuring of Hollywood cinema against the backdrop of the major political, economic, and social changes taking place after World War II
  • Features in-depth discussions of important films from Picnic, The Heiress, and From Here to Eternity, to Cat On A Hot Tin Roof and Love Me or Leave Me
  • Illustrates the culture/filmmaking interface, and demonstrates the triumphs and failures of Hollywood's new methods of business


Author: Drew Casper
ISBN-10: 1405150750
ISBN-13: 9781405150750
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 09/11/2007
Pages: 496
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.89lbs
Size: 9.62h x 6.80w x 1.05d
By Drew Casper
By Drew Casper
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Drew Casper is the Alma and Alfred Hitchcock Professor of American Film at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts. His books include: Vincente Minnelli and the Film Musical, The Style of Stanley Donen, and An Introduction to Film Reader. He is a DVD commentator on innumerable American films of the classical and postwar periods.

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