Celluloid Mirrors Hollywood and American

CELLULOID MIRRORS is an exciting new survey of major developments in American filmmaking since 1945. Coverage includes changes in film content, alterations in the business structure of Hollywood, shifts in theater design, the impact of television, and Hollywood's enduring mystique. This supplement is appropriate for a variety of courses, including American History Survey courses, Modern America History courses, American Cultural History, Film History, and Popular Culture.

Preface

xi

The Decline of the Big Studios

1

(26)

The 1945-1946 Strikes

3

(3)

HUAC Investigations and the Blacklist

6

(7)

The Divorcement Decrees

13

(1)

The Move to Suburbia

14

(1)

The Advent of Television

15

(1)

Meeting the Challenge

16

(3)

Changes at Home and Abroad

19

(4)

Conclusion

23

(4)

A Search for new Markets

27

(40)

Hollywood in Despair

30

(2)

Spectacles and Distant Locations

32

(4)

The Challenge from Foreign Films and Art Houses

36

(2)

Reaching for Mature Audiences

38

(2)

Breaking with Tradition

40

(3)

Appealing to the Teenage Market

43

(5)

Roger Corman, New King of the B's

48

(2)

The Science Fiction Craze

50

(2)

Recognition of Black Audiences

52

(3)

The Marriage with Television

55

(6)

Making the Most of Less

61

(2)

Conclusion

63

(4)

Tangles of Conglomerates

67

(30)

MCA and Universal

70

(2)

Paramount and Gulf+Western

72

(1)

From Warner Bros. To Time Warner

73

(1)

Columbia, Coca-Cola, and Sony

74

(7)

The Eclipse of MGM

81

(3)

United Artists and Transamerica

84

(2)

Twentieth Century-Fox, the Last Independent Major

86

(3)

New Directions for Disney

89

(1)

The Appearance of Mini-Majors

90

(2)

Conclusion

92

(5)

Popular Culture to Counterculture and Back

97

(36)

The Darkening Mood

98

(3)

New Wave Influences

101

(3)

The New Rating System

104

(3)

The Youth Market

107

(4)

The Discovery of Minorities

111

(3)

Protests against the Vietnam War

114

(1)

Hollywood in the Doldrums

115

(1)

Disaster and the Occult

116

(2)

The Movie Brats

118

(7)

Bogdanovich and Allen

125

(1)

The Quest for a New Identity

126

(3)

Conclusion

129

(4)

Movie Palaces, Shopping Malls, and Multiplexes

133

(16)

Retreat to the Malls

135

(3)

New Theater Chains

138

(2)

Cineplex Odeon

140

(1)

The Studios' Return to Exhibition

141

(1)

A Thriving Business

142

(3)

Ancillary Markets

145

(1)

Conclusion

146

(3)

Return to Entertainment

149

(28)

Recoil to Conservation

151

(3)

Thrills, Spills, and Special Effects

154

(1)

Courting the Teen Market

155

(2)

Later Developments of the Movie Brats

157

(4)

Oliver Stone: Relevance and Subjectivity

161

(1)

Social Comment and Historical Revision

162

(2)

Attention to Minorities

164

(4)

Sex, Violence, Nudity, and Profanity

168

(1)

Discovering the Australian Cinema

169

(2)

More Actors than Stars

171

(1)

Conclusion

172

(5)

The Small Screen

177

(40)

The Shift from New York to Hollywood

179

(2)

The Placid Fifties

181

(9)

The Turbulent Sixties

190

(7)

The Innovative Seventies

197

(10)

The Somnambulistic Eighties

207

(5)

Into the Nineties

212

(2)

Conclusion

214

(3)

Hollywood's Enduring Mystique

217

(16)

The Reality: Urban Blight

220

(1)

A Precarious Business

221

(3)

Less a Place than a Concept

224

(1)

The Blurred Line between Reality and Fantasy

224

(2)

Example: The O.J. Simpson Case

226

(5)

Conclusion

231

(2)

Bibliography

233

(11)

Index

244

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Celluloid Mirrors Hollywood and American Society Since 1945

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