Textbook
Postwar Hollywood: 1946-1962ISBN: 978-1-4051-5074-3
Hardcover
488 pages
September 2007, ©2007, Wiley-Blackwell
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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