Textbook
The Golden Age of Cinema: Hollywood, 1929-1945ISBN: 978-1-4051-6373-6
Paperback
368 pages
November 2007, ©2007, Wiley-Blackwell
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"Rick Jewell has been teaching a course on classical Hollywood
moviemaking at USC for some years but has never found a textbook
that suited his needs. As a result he has written one, and
it’s excellent. Jewell has taken on the daunting task of
surveying the social history of the period, the business side of
Hollywood , changes and advancement in technology, censorship,
narrative and style, genres, and the star system. Whew! I
can’t imagine a better introduction to this subject matter.
The book is scrupulously well organized and uses specific examples
whenever possible instead of dealing in generalities." Leonard
Maltin's Movie Crazy (www.leonardmaltin.com)
“Some believe that American film peaked between the Stock
Market Crash and the end of World War II. Richard B. Jewell’s
The Golden Age of Cinema sharply delineates how the film
industry worked during the period, casting light on the movies as
business, technology, social document, and popular
art.”
Charles J. Maland, University of Tennessee