Hollywood in Crisis

Cinema and American Society 1929-1939

Colin Schindler

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Routledge
27 June 1996

Social & cultural history; Cultural studies; Anthropology; Cinema industry

Series: Cinema and Society

Hollywood in Crisis is a detailed study of the workings of the American film industry during the 1930s. Colin Schindler, looking at Hollywood as an agent of Roosevelt's New Deal and the attempts made by film moguls and movie makers to withstand the political turmoil that threatened to engulf America. Schindler illustrates how the studios and their products, from the glamour of MGM stars and escapist musicals to gangster movies and Westerns, even to the 'radical' films of the Warner studios, helped foster ideas of social unity and patriotism.

By: Colin Schindler
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780415103138
ISBN 10: 0415103134
Series: Cinema and Society
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 27 June 1996
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Colin Shindler was born in Lancashire and educated at Bury Grammar School and Caius College, Cambridge. He is a television producer and has worked on many dramas from A Little Princess to Lovejoy, and wrote the screenplay for Buster. He is the author of Hollywood goes to War (1980). Colin lives in London with his American wife, two children and the neurosis which comes from supporting Manchester City.

Reviews for Hollywood in Crisis: Cinema and American Society 1929-1939

"...""this book will find its way onto dozens of college reading lists, and undergraduates will be taken by the clarity of its linkages of movies and politics, its effective blend of narrative and topical chapters, and its neatly drawn political readings of movies meant as ""mere"" entertainments...All collections."" -""Choice, May 1997"