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Book SynopsisTrade Review“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 *
“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 Contents1930 : Movies and social difference / Aaron Baker
1931 : Movies and the voice / Cynthia Erb
1932 : Movies and transgression / David Lugowski
1933 : Movies and the New Deal in entertainment / Martin Rubin
1934 : Movies and the marginalized / Charlene Regester
1935 : Movies and the resistance to tyranny / Ina Rae Hark
1936 : Movies and the possibility of transcendence / Susan Ohmer
1937 : Movies and new constructions of the American star / Allen Larson
1938 : Movies and whistling in the dark / Sam B. Girgus
1939 : Movies and American culture in the annus mirabilis / Charles Maland
Select Academy Awards, 1930-1939
