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Book SynopsisDuring the 1920s, sound revolutionized the motion picture industry and cinema continued as one of the most significant and popular forms of mass entertainment in the world. This work examines the film industry's growth and prosperity while focusing on important themes of the era.
Trade Review"This most recent volume in the Screen Decades series, which looks at American culture and American cinema decade by decade, offers ten essays on the cinema of what F. Scott Fitzgerald termed 'the jazz age.' These fresh, insightful essays spark attention on the era of emancipation, Prohibition, materialism, the arrival of radio and sound films, and, of course, bobbed hair. Recommended." * Choice *
“There is nothing like this series. Screen Decades firmly situates American cinema in the realms of material culture, popular culture, cultural narrative, reception analysis, and industrial history.”
* American Quarterly *
"This most recent volume in the Screen Decades series, which looks at American culture and American cinema decade by decade, offers ten essays on the cinema of what F. Scott Fitzgerald termed 'the jazz age.' These fresh, insightful essays spark attention on the era of emancipation, Prohibition, materialism, the arrival of radio and sound films, and, of course, bobbed hair. Recommended." * Choice *
“There is nothing like this series. Screen Decades firmly situates American cinema in the realms of material culture, popular culture, cultural narrative, reception analysis, and industrial history.”
* American Quarterly *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Timeline: The 1920s
Introduction The Twenties and Cinema,
Lucy Fischer 1920 Movies, Margarine and Main Street,
Michael Aronson 1921 Movies and Personality,
Mark Lynn Anderson 1922 Movies and the Perilous Future,
Sara Ross 1923 Movies and the Changing Body Of Cinema,
Marcia Landy 1924 Movies and Play,
Jennifer M. Bean 1925 Movies and a Year of Change,
Gwenda Young 1926 Movies and Divine Stars, Defining Gender,
Maureen Turim 1927 Movies and the New Woman as Consumer,
Sumiko Higashi 1928 Movies, Social Conformity, and Imminent Traumas, A
ngela Dalle Vacche 1929 Crashes and Finales,
Lucy Fischer Select Academy Awards, 1927-1929
Works Cited and Consulted
Contributors
Index
