The studio system

Staiger, Janet. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0813521319 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0813521300 (cloth)
Physical Description: viii, 333 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1995.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-320) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Notes on Columbia Pictures Corporation 1926-41 / Edward Buscombe -- How Howard Hanks brought Baby up : an apologia for the studio system / Richard B. Jewell -- My name is Joseph H. Lewis / Paul Kerr -- "A triumph of bitchery" : Warner Bros., Bette Davis, and Jezebel / Thomas Schatz -- Deep-focus cinematography / David Bordwell -- William Fox presents Sunrise / Robert C. Allen -- Narrative authority and social narrativity : the cinematic reconstitution of Bronte's Jane Eyre / Jeffrey Sconce -- The Tarzan films : an analysis of determinants of maintenance and change in conventions / Derral Cheatwood -- Women in the early film industry / Martin F. Norden -- Standards and practices : aesthetic norm and technological innovation in the American cinema / James Lastra -- Crime pays : the studios' labor deals in the 1930s / Denise Hartsough -- "Baby face" or How Joe Breen made Barbara Stanwyck atone for causing the Wall Street crash / Richard Maltby -- What to show the world : the Office of War Information and Hollywood, 1942-1945 / Clayton R. Koppes and Gregory D. Black -- Teenagers and teenpics, 1955-1957 : a study of exploitation filmmaking / Thomas Doherty.