Boom and Bust: American Cinema in the 1940s
by:
Thomas Schatz (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780520221307 (0520221303)
Publish date: November 23rd 1999
Publisher: University of California Press
Pages no: 582
Edition language: English
Series: History of the American Cinema (#6)
Thomas Schatz's volume in the "History of the American Cinema" series looks as Hollywood in the 1940s, a challenging decade in which the film industry faced threats from antitrust investigations and the emerging technology of television. Overshadowing all, though, was the war, which both undermined ...