{"product_id":"workingclass-hollywood-silent-film-and-the-shaping-of-class-in-america-9780691024646","title":"WorkingClass Hollywood  Silent Film and the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReveals how Hollywood became \"Hollywood\" and what that meant for the politics of America and American film. This book tells the story of filmmaking in the first three decades of the twentieth century, a time when going to the movies could transform lives and when the cinema was a battleground for control of American consciousness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 1999 Book Award, Theatre Library Association One of Los Angeles Times's Best Nonfiction Books for 1998 \"One of the satisfactions in reading Working-Class Hollywood is that the author is as happily polemical as his subjects and not afraid to take sides. This gives his impressively researched and annotated book a scrappy, personal tone that is refreshing to find in a work of such academic weight.\"--Los Angeles Times \"A breakthrough volume in terms of American film history.\"--Vancouver Sun \"A rigorously researched and refreshingly accessible book.\"--The Nation \"Working-Class Hollywood is ... a meticulous and beautifully accomplished re-creation of the lost world of labor and radical films... No one reading this masterly new study can look at nearly a century of movie making in quite the same way again.\"--Journal of American History \"Working-class Hollywood, Steven J. Ross has gone a long way to show, is an oxymoron. Ross has uncovered a lively scene of decentralized, diversified production in the early motion picture business.\"--Michael Rogin, American Historical Review \"A vividly written chronicle of multi-faceted struggles over the meaning of class in American life as they took shape in silent film... By analyzing the range of perspectives on class in early feature films, Ross provides a nuanced picture of the ways class issues and class relations were defined for movie audiences... [A] rich, well-researched monograph ... [and a] provocative and informative book.\"--Kathryn J. Oberdeck, Reviews in American History \"An impassioned celebration of a movement that depicted social issues at the birth of the big screen... A valuable addition to cinema history... \"--Kirkus Review \"Steeped in labor and class history, sweetened by a perceptive moviegoer's parsing of onscreen images, Working-Class Hollywood is a fascinating study of how movies make us.\"--Washington Post Book World \"Steven J. Ross spent a decade laboring on Working-Class Hollywood, and it shows on every page. It is a phenomenally well-researched study ... And yet is highly readable, without a hint of droning pedantry.\"--Ben Singer, Modernism\/Modernity \"Steven J. Ross has an important story to tell, and he tells it with great passion and conviction.\"--Peter Kramer, Labour History Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPt. IThe Rise of the Movies: Political Filmmaking and the Working Class1Introduction31Going to the Movies: Leisure, Class, and Danger in the Early Twentieth Century112Visualizing the Working Class: Cinema and Politics before Hollywood343The Good, the Bad, and the Violent: Class Conflict and the Labor-Capital Genre564Making a Pleasure of Agitation: The Rise of the Worker Film Movement86Pt. IIThe Rise of Hollywood: From Working Class to Middle Class1135When Russia Invaded America: Hollywood, War, and the Movies1156Struggles for the Screen: The Revival of the Worker Film Movement1437Fantasy and Politics: Moviegoing and Movies in the 1920s1738Lights Out: The Decline of Labor Filmmaking and the Triumph of Hollywood212Epilogue: The Movies Talk But What Do They Say?240Select Filmography259Sources and Methods for Writing Film History263Abbreviations277Notes279Index353","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403685273943,"sku":"9780691024646","price":37.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691024646.jpg?v=1730484249","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/workingclass-hollywood-silent-film-and-the-shaping-of-class-in-america-9780691024646","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}