Grand Design

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Hollywood as a Modern Business Enterprise, 1930-1939

Tino Balio

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University of California Press
29 January 1996

Social & cultural history; Cinema industry

Series: History of the American Cinema

The advent of color, big musicals, the studio system, and the beginning of institutionalized censorship made the thirties the defining decade for Hollywood. The year 1939, celebrated as ""Hollywood's greatest year,"" saw the release of such memorable films as Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, and Stagecoach. It was a time when the studios exercised nearly absolute control over their product as well as over such stars as Bette Davis, Clark Gable, and Humphrey Bogart. In this fifth volume of the award-winning series History of the American Cinema, Tino Balio examines every aspect of the filmmaking and film exhibition system as it matured during the Depression era.

By: Tino Balio
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 5
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 998g
ISBN: 9780520203341
ISBN 10: 0520203348
Series: History of the American Cinema
Pages: 483
Publication Date: 29 January 1996
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgments Contributors 1 Introduction 2 Surviving the Great Depression 3 The Production Code and the Hays Office Richard Maltby 4 Feeding the Maw of Exhibition 5 Technological Change and Classical Film Style David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson 6 Selling Stars 7 Production Trends Prestige Pictures Musicals The Woman's Film Comedy Social Problem Films Horror Films 8 The B Film: Hollywood's Other Half Brian Taves 9 The Poetics and Politics of Nonfiction: Documentary Film Charles Wolfe 10 Avant-Garde Film ]an-Christopher Horak Appendixes: Variety's Top-grossing Films Major Academy Awards Film Daily's Ten Best Films List of Abbreviations Notes Bibliography General Index Index of Films

Tino Balio is Program Director of the Arts Institute and Professor of Communication Arts and Academics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he also served as Director of the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research from 1966 to 1982. He is the author of Hollywood in the Age of Television (1990), among other titles.

Reviews for Grand Design: Hollywood as a Modern Business Enterprise, 1930-1939

""Fascinating. . . . ""Grand Design gives the most convincing picture yet of how the Hollywood system operated in the 1930s, and was to continue to operate until social changes and the belated introduction of antitrust legislation in the post-war period brought the system to a lingering end in the 1950s.""--Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, ""Times Literary Supplement