Boom and Bust

American Cinema in the 1940s

By: Thomas Schatz

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Paperback | 23 November 1999 | Edition Number 1

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582 Pages

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Boom and Bust traces the movie industry through the momentous decade of the 1940s. It discusses changes in the structure of the studio system--including the shift to independent production--and the dominant stars, genres, and production trends through the period.

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""Boom and Bust constitutes an essential background for anyone interested in this complicated decade. . . . By dealing with break and continuity together, Schatz is able to tell several histories of American film: the history of the cinema's recruitment by politics, but also the history of industrial practices that move at their own irreducible speed."--Dana Polan, "Film Quarterly

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