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America At The Movies

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Miss Thorp's book, which first appeared in America in 1939, is a diverting but shrewd account of the effect of films on American society in that year. She rightly relates the general problem to its local concrete expression: in other words, what happens, say, when A Yank at Oxford comes to Oklahama? A skilful analysis of the in- dustry, of methods of distribution, of the pre-occupations of pro- ducers, of the star system and publicity, of the methods and effect of propaganda, censorship and criticism - all this is brilliantly illus- trated. 'The movie heroine never has more than one child and that child never has to be washed or dressed or punished

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791.4 Tho A

Publisher

New York : Arno Press., 1970

Collation

313 p.

Language

English

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791.4

Edition

1

Subject(s)

Motion pictures - United States

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