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Hollywood 1938 : Motion Pictures' Greatest Year.
Başlık:
Hollywood 1938 : Motion Pictures' Greatest Year.
Yazar:
Jurca, Catherine.
ISBN:
9780520951969
Yazar Ek Girişi:
Basım Bilgisi:
1st ed.
Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 online resource (218 pages)
İçerik:
Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Hollywood Looks at Its Audience -- Part One: The Campaign -- 1. Annus Horribilis -- Goldwyn's Folly -- Such a Thing as Bad Publicity -- The Moviegoing Habit -- 2. Exhibitors, the Movie Quiz Contest, and a Divided Industry -- The Minds of Exhibitors -- The Carrot and the Stick -- The Quiz Contest on the Ground -- What the Contest Did for Me -- Independents Rebel -- 3. The Campaign and the Press -- The Film Industry Speaks Its Mind -- Marginal Moviegoers -- The Gossip Columnists -- The Dailies Have Their Say -- Part Two: The Films -- 4. "The Finest Array of Productions" -- Ninety-Four Films -- The Death of Glamour -- Human Films -- The Human Side of Screwball -- You Can't Take It with You -- Four Daughters -- Boys Town -- Marie Antoinette -- That's Entertainment -- The Fourth Estate -- Conclusion: Motion Pictures' Worst Year -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Notes -- Index.
Özet:
In Hollywood 1938, Catherine Jurca brings to light a tumultuous year of crisis that has been neglected in histories of the studio era. With attendance in decline, negative publicity about stars that were "poison at the box office," and a spate of bad films, industry executives decided that the public was fed up with the movies. Jurca describes their desperate attempt to win back audiences by launching Motion Pictures' Greatest Year, a massive, and unsuccessful, public relations campaign conducted in theaters and newspapers across North America. Drawing on the records of studio personnel, independent exhibitors, moviegoers, and the motion pictures themselves, she analyzes what was wrong-and right-with Hollywood at the end of a heralded decade, and how the industry's troubles changed the making and marketing of films in 1938 and beyond.
Notlar:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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