The Classical Hollywood Reader Book

List of illustrations xi

Notes on contributors xiii

Acknowledgements xix

Permissions xxi

Introduction Steve Neale 1

1 Prologue: Emotional Curves and Linear Narratives Patrick Keating 6

Part I Feature films, Hollywood and the advent of the studio system, 1912-26 21

2 The Quality Race: Feature Films and Market Dominance in the us and Europe in the 1910s Gerben Bakker 31

3 Making Movies, 1915-28 Richard Koszarski 43

4 The Limits of Experimentation in Hollywood Kristin Thompson 61

5 "Doing a 'Man's Work'": The Rise of the Studio System and the Remasculinization of Filmmaking Karen Ward Mahar 79

6 Hollywood's Conception of Its Audience in the 1920s Lea Jacobs Andrea Comiskey 94

Part II Sound and the studio system, 1926-46 111

7 The coming of Sound: Technological Change in the American Film Industry Douglas Gomery 123

8 Hollywood Babell: The Coming of Sound and the Multiple Language Version Ginette Vincendeau Douglas Gomery 137

9 Organization Howard T. Lewis 147

10 Hollywood: The Triumph of the Studio System Thomas Schatz 167

11 Cinemagoing in the United States in the Mid-1930s: A Study Based on the Variety Dataset Mark Glancy John Sedgwick 179

12 Selling Stars: The Economic Imperative Tino Balio 209

Part III Representation, technology, production and style, 1926-46 227

13 The Production Code and the Mythologies of 'Pre-Code' Hollywood Richard Maltby 237

14 Commanding the Sounds of the Universe: Classical Hollywood Sound in the 1930s and Early 1940s Helen Hanson Steve Neale 249

15 The Classical Hollywood Film Score Kathryn Kalinak 262

16 Shooting for Selznick: Craft and Collaboration in Hollywood Cinematography Patrick Keating 280

17 Order and Plenitude: Technicolor Aesthetics in the Classical Era Scott Higgins 296

18 The Disney-Fleischer Dilemma: Product Differentiation and Technological Innovation Mark Langer 310

Part IV Postwar Hollywood and the end of the studio system, 1946-66 321

19 Individualism Versus Collectivism: The Shift to Independent Production in the us Film Industry Janet Staiger 331

20 Ozoners, Roadshows and Blitz Exhibitionism: Postwar Developments in Distribution and Exhibition Sheldon Hall 343

21 Glorious Technicolor, Breathtaking Cinemascope and Stereophonic Sound John Belton 355

22 Hollywood and Television in the 1950s: The Roots of Diversification Janet Wasko 370

23 Hollywood and Politics in the 1940s and 1950s Brian Neve 389

24 Arties and Imports, Exports and Runaways, Adult films and Exploitation Steve Neale 399

Epilogue Steve Neale 412

Bibliography 415

Index 441