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The ABCs of Classic Hollywood (Hardcover)
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The ABCs of Classic Hollywood (Hardcover)
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Speaking about the kind of filmmaking now known as Classic
Hollywood, the most popular and influential cinema ever invented,
Vincente Minnelli once gave away its secret: "I feel that a picture
that stays with you is made up of a hundred or more hidden things.
They're things that the audience is not conscious of, but that
accumulate." How would we go about finding those things? What
method would enable us to retrieve them, and by doing so, to
understand better how Hollywood films got made? The ABCs of Classic
Hollywood attempts to answer those questions by looking closely at
four movies from the 1930-1945 period when the American Studio
System reached the peak of its economic and cultural power: Grand
Hotel, The Philadelphia Story, The Maltese Falcon, and Meet Me in
St. Louis. To avoid the predictable generalizations that have
plagued film studies, Ray works with the movies' details, treated
as initially mysterious, but promising, clues: e.g., Grand Hotel's
coffin and room assignments; The Philadelphia Story's diving board
and license plate PA55; The Maltese Falcon's clocks and missing
bed; Meet Me in St. Louis's violinist and ribboned cat. By
producing at least 26 entries for each of these films (one for
every letter of the alphabet), Ray demonstrates that a movie's
details contain the record of the work and ideas that produced
them, the endless negotiation between commercial efficiency and
seductive enchantment. In our unconscious memories, we recognize
something in the movies, something tantalizing and just out of
reach. This book unlocks those memories, making them conscious and
explicit, so that they will help us understand the most powerful
and important storytelling system ever designed.
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