Hollywood, A Very Short Introduction by Decherney, Peter -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover page Halftitle page Series page Title page Copyright page Dedication page Contents List of illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Five theses on the history of Hollywood

1. Nothing natural 2. Risky business 3. “Hollyworld” 4. Transmedia 5. The more things change

1 Before Hollywood

From the phonograph to the Vitascope The nickelodeon era The Trust and the independents

2 The studio system

The birth of the studios The star system The genre system

3 Sound and the Production Code

Sound and the challenges of new technology The Production Code

4 Hollywood at war

Hollywood gets political Warner Bros. at war Wartime government agencies

5 The blacklist and the Cold War

HUAC in Hollywood The Hollywood Ten and the blacklist Cold War films

6 The New Hollywood

Television Hollywood auteurs Big media

7 Home video and Indiewood

Home video Indiewood

8 Digital cinema and the internet

Computer generated images From the internet back to the nickelodeon

References Further reading Index

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