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book		The 30's / by Paul Trent Barre, Mass. New York: Barre Pub. distributed by Crown Publishers, [1975]. Call No: 71(73) TRE Author: Trent, Paul, 1940 Place: Barre, Mass. New York Publisher: Barre Pub. distributed by Crown Publishers PubDate: [1975] PhysDes: 192 p. : ill. ; 28 cm Series: Those fabulous movie years Subject: USA. 1930's Notes: "A Vineyard book." ISBN: 0517512407 LON: 381553 More info
book		The Columbia companion to American history on film : how the movies have portrayed the American past / edited by Peter C. Rollins New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. Call No: 741.9(73) COL Author: Rollins, Peter C. Edition: 1st ed. Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Columbia University Press PubDate: 2003 PhysDes: xxi, 671 p. : ill. ; 26 cm Subject: USA; USA. 1895-1930; USA. 1920's; USA. 1927-32; USA. 1930's; USA. 1940's; USA. 1950's; USA. 1960's; USA. 1970's; NIXON [RICHARD M.] IN FILMS Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 023111222X Donation: Donated by Senses Of Cinema, 2009 Contents: I. Eras-- The Puritan Era and the Puritan Mind-- The 1890s -- The 1920s --The 1930s -- The 1960s -- The 1970s -- The 1980s -- II. Wars and Other Malor Events --The American Revolution -- The Civil War and Reconstruction -- The Cold War-- The Korean War -- The Mexican-American War and the Spanish-American War --The Vietnam War -- Westward Expansion and the Indian Wars -- World War I -- World War-- II: Documentaries -- World War II: Feature Films -- III. Notable People -- The Antebellum Frontier Hero --Christopher Columbus-- The Founding Fathers -- Indian Leaders -- The Kennedys -- Abraham Lincoln --Richard Nixon -- Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt -- Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig -- Harry S. Truman -- George Washington -- IV. Groups -- African Americans After World War II-- Arab Americans-- Asian Americans-- Catholic Americans -- Children and Teenagers in the Twentieth Century -- Irish Americans -- Italian Americans--Jewish Americans -- Mexican Americans --Native Americans -- Radicals and Radicalism-- Robber Barons, Media Moguls, and Power Elites -- Women from the Colonial Era to 1900 -- Women in the Twentieth Century-- V. Institutions and Movements -- Baseball -- City and State Government -- Civil Rights-- Congress -- The Family -- Football -- Journalism and the Media -- The Labor Movement and the Working Class--Militias and Extremist Political Movements --The Political Machine -- The Presidency After World War II -- Private Schools -- Public High Schools -- VI. Places -- The Midwest -- The "New" West and the New Western -- New York City--The Sea -- The Small Town -- The South -- Space -- Suburbia -- Texas and the Southwest -- The Trans-Appalachian West -- VII. Themes and Topics -- Crime and the Mafia -- Drugs, Tobacco, and Alcohol -- Elections and Party Politics -- Feminism and Feminist Films-- Railroads --Sexuality -- Slavery -- VIII. Myths and Heroes -- The American Adam-- The American Fighting Man -- Democracy and Equality -- The Frontier and the West -- Hollywood's Detective-- The Machine in the Garden -- Success and the Self-Made Man. More info
book		Death in classical Hollywood cinema / Boaz Hagin New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Call No: 747.19 HAG Source: US Place: New York, NY Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan PubDate: 2010 PhysDes: ix, 201 p. ; 22 cm Subject: DEATH IN FILMS; USA. 1920's; USA. 1930's; USA. 1940's; USA. 1950's Summary: 'This highly original study is a rigorous, provocative and entertaining account of the different meanings associated with death in classical Hollywood cinema. Analyzing an impressive range of films with flair and theoretical sophistication, it shows how death becomes meaningful in art. This is an important work on Hollywood film which also helps us to understand how we incorporate the death of others into the narrative of our lives.'-Colin Davis, Professor of French, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK -- Characterized by a causal, linear, individual-driven narrative, and also by a flair for excessive melodramatic spectacles, Hollywood's classical films from the 1920's through the 1950's pose unique challenges and constraints for making death meaningful. Death in Classical Hollywood Cinema shows how philosophies of death can be gleaned by looking at the role death plays within the classical Hollywood narrative and in later mainstream films which cope with death in light of virtual reality, cloning, and genetic engineering. Addressing major continental thinkers like Freud, Benjamin, and Deleuze, and focusing on the melodrama, gangster film, Western, and war film, this book analyzes and challenges the ways Hollywood can offer to cope with death and to make sense of our inevitable and universal mortality. --Book Jacket. ISBN: 9780230236226 Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2013 Contents: -- acknowledgments -- The meaning of death in classical Hollywood. Practicing film theory -- Death on the line -- A politics of death -- Two Platos : death, truth, and knowledge. A rehearsal for death -- Access, authority, and tests -- The superfluity of a truth-revealing death -- The misery of truth -- Embodying the past. The killability test -- A logic of singular evil -- Melodrama and the shaping of desires to come. Sublating death -- Obstacles and goals -- Desiring death -- Impossible legacies -- Cults of the dead and powers of the false. Retaining the dead -- Westerns and falsehoods -- The forming of a cult -- A brand that sticks -- A perpetual present : death and the war film. An absurd death -- The Hollywood war machine -- The exception of state -- Conclusions : the ends of classical death. Billy Wilder and Hollywood's "Auschwitz" -- The vicissitudes of the killability test -- The virtual Frankenstein -- notes -- index -- More info
book		From Scarface to Scarlett : American films in the 1930s / Roger Dooley New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1981. Call No: 71(73) DOO Author: Dooley, Roger, 1920 Edition: 1st ed Place: New York Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich PubDate: c1981 PhysDes: xxiv, 648 p. : ill. ; 26 cm Subject: USA. 1930's Notes: Includes indexes; Bibliography: p. [621] ISBN: 0151337896 LON: 1856126 More info
book		Hollywood 1938 : motion pictures' greatest year / by Catherine Jurca Berkeley: University of California Press, c2012. Call No: 71(73) "1938" JUR Author: Jurca, Catherine Source: US Place: Berkeley Publisher: University of California Press PubDate: c2012 PhysDes: x, 272 p. : ill. ; 23 cm Subject: USA; USA. 1930's; INDUSTRY, FILM. USA; FILM; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1930's; [FOUR] 4 DAUGHTERS (US, Michael Curtiz, 1938; BOYS TOWN (US, Norman Taurog, 1938); YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU (US, Frank Capra, 1938); MARIE ANTOINETTE (US, W.S. Van Dyke, 1938) Summary: "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 who 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, movie-goers, 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." -- BOOK BLURB Notes: Formerly CIP; "Fletcher Jones Foundation humanities imprint"; Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-261), index and filmography ISBN: 9780520271807 Donation: Donated by Senses of CInema, 2013 Contents: -- list of illustrations -- acknowledgments -- Introduction: Hollywood looks at its audience -- The campaign -- Annus horribilis -- Goldwyn's folly -- Such a thing as bad publicity -- The moviegoing habit -- 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 -- The campaign and the press -- The film industry speaks its mind -- Marginal moviegoers -- The gossip columnists -- The dailies have their say -- The films -- "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 -- More info
book		Hollywood in the thirties London New York: A. Zwemmer A. S. Barnes, 1968. Call No: 71(73) BAX Author: Baxter, John, 1939 Place: London New York Publisher: A. Zwemmer A. S. Barnes PubDate: 1968 PhysDes: 160 p. illus. 16 cm Subject: USA. 1930's LON: 717176 More info
book		We're in the money : depression America and its films New York: New York University Press, 1971. Call No: 71(73) BER Author: Bergman, Andrew Source: US Place: New York Publisher: New York University Press PubDate: 1971 PhysDes: xxiii, 200 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: USA; USA. 1930's; VIDOR, KING; CAPRA, FRANK Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis, University of Wisconsin -- Bibliography: p. [187]-193 ISBN: 0814709648 LON: 321033 More info

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