{"product_id":"moviemade-america-isbn-9780679755494","title":"Movie-Made America","description":"Hailed as the definitive work upon its original publication in 1975 and now extensively revised and updated by the author, this vastly absorbing and richly illustrated book examines film as an art form, technological innovation, big business, and shaper of American values. \u003cbr\u003eEver since Edison's peep shows first captivated urban audiences, film has had a revolutionary impact on American society, transforming culture from the bottom up, radically revising attitudes toward pleasure and sexuality, and at the same time, cementing the myth of the American dream. No book has measured film's impact more clearly or comprehensively than \u003ci\u003eMovie-Made America.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis vastly readable and richly illustrated volume examines film as art form, technological innovation, big business, and cultural bellwether. It takes in stars from Douglas Fairbanks to Sly Stallone;\u003ci\u003e auteurs\u003c\/i\u003e from D. W. Griffith to Martin Scorsese and Spike Lee; and genres\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003efrom the screwball comedy of the 1930s to the \"hard body\" movies of the 1980s to the independents films of the 1990s.\u003cbr\u003eCombining panoramic sweep with detailed commentaries on hundreds of individual films, \u003ci\u003eMovie-Made America \u003c\/i\u003eis a must for any motion picture enthusiast.Part I: The Rise of Movie Culture\u003cbr\u003e1. The Birth of a Mass Medium\u003cbr\u003e2. Nickel Madness\u003cbr\u003e3. Edison's Trust and How It Got Busted\u003cbr\u003e4. D.W. Griffith and the Forging of Motion-Picture Art\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart II: The Movies in the Age of Mass Culture\u003cbr\u003e5. Hollywood and the Dawning of the Aquarian Age\u003cbr\u003e6. The Silent Film and the Passionate Life\u003cbr\u003e7. Chaos, Magic, Physical Genius and the Art of Silent Comedy\u003cbr\u003e8. Movie-Made Children\u003cbr\u003e9. The House That Adolph Zukor Built\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart III: Mass Culture in the Age of Movies\u003cbr\u003e10. The Moguls at Bay and the Censors' Triumph\u003cbr\u003e11. The Golden Age of Turbulence and the Golden Age of Order\u003cbr\u003e12. The Making of Cultural Myths: Walt Disney and Frank Capra\u003cbr\u003e13. Selling Movies Overseas\u003cbr\u003e14. The Hollywood Gold Rush\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart IV: The Decline of Movie Culture\u003cbr\u003e15. Hollywood at War for America and at War with Itself\u003cbr\u003e16. The Disappearing Audience and the Television Crisis\u003cbr\u003e17. Hollywood's Collapse\u003cbr\u003e18. The Promise of Personal Film \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart V: The Enduring Medium\u003cbr\u003e19. Nadir and Revival\u003cbr\u003e20. Hollywood and the Age of Reagan\u003cbr\u003e21. From Myth to Memory\u003cbr\u003e22. Independent Images\"THE history of the American movie, combining social history, economics, and a precise and effective sense of film criticism.\"--Frank Friedel, Harvard University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"One of the best popular works we have in the field of media ecology....There is hardly a single question regarding the transforming power of movies that [Sklar] leaves untouched.\"--Neil PostmanRobert Sklar was born in 1936 and was educated in the public schools of Long Beach, California, and at Princeton University. After working as a reporter for the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, he received his Ph.D. in the history of American civilization from Harvard University of 1965. He was a professor of cinema at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts for more than thirty years, served on the selection committee of the New York Film Festival, and was a member of the National Film Preservation Board. Mr. Sklar's other books include \u003ci\u003eFilm: An International History of the Medium \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eCity Boys: Cagney, Bogart, Garfield\u003c\/i\u003e. He died in 2011.Revised and Updated","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304621035749,"sku":"NP9780679755494","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679755494.jpg?v=1767733024","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/moviemade-america-isbn-9780679755494","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}