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Decoding the Movies - Hollywood in the 1930s (Hardcover)
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Decoding the Movies - Hollywood in the 1930s (Hardcover)
Series: Exeter Studies in Film History
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This book "decodes" 1930s Hollywood movies and explains why they
looked and behaved in the way they did. Organized through a series
of related case studies, the book exposes Classical Hollywood
movies to a detailed analysis of their historical, industrial and
cultural contexts. In the process it utilizes industry data,
aesthetic analysis and the insights of New Cinema History to
explain why and how these movies assumed their familiar forms. The
book represents the summation of Richard Maltby's four decades of
scholarship in the field of Hollywood cinema. The essays presented
here share an assumption that has increasingly informed the
author's critical method over the years: that any historical
understanding of the films of this period requires a deep
contextualization in the social circumstances surrounding both
their production and consumption. In this way, the book introduces
an innovative, overarching research methodology that synthesizes
branches of research that are typically employed in isolation,
including production, distribution, reception, film aesthetics, and
cultural and historical context. Of the book's nine chapters, three
are presented here for the first time, and four have been
substantially revised and extended from their original publication.
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