TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Introduction: the social and cultural history of American film -- The silent era -- Hollywood's golden age -- Wartime Hollywood -- Postwar Hollywood -- Hollywood since Vietnam -- Bibliography.
Summary
"The introduction to this book traces the history of American film against a backdrop of broader changes in late nineteenth and twentieth-century popular culture. A series of interpretive essays then examines how classic films treated American political, economic, and social life; primary sources that illuminate film history are also included as is an extensive bibliographic guide to the literature on American movies." -- Preface (p. ix).
