The American Film Industry

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: University Of Wisconsin Press
Publisher Place: Usa
Publisher Year: 1985
Edition: Revised

Description: 664 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Upon its original publication in 1976, The American Film Industry was welcomed by film students, scholars, and fans as the first systematic and unified history of the American movie industry. Now this indispensible anthology has been expanded and revised to include a fresh introductory overview by editor Tino Balio and ten new chapters that explore such topics as the growth of exhibition as big business, the mode of production for feature films, the star as market strategy, and the changing economics and structure of contemporary entertainment companies. The result is a unique collection of essays, more comprehensive and current than ever, that reveals how the American movie industry really worked in a century of constant change-from kinetoscopes and the coming of sound to the star system, 1950s blacklisting, and todays corporate empires.

ISBN: 0299098745