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CIty of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940´s
Otto Friedrich
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Paperback. Num Pages: 736 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA; HBJK; HBLW; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 34. Weight in Grams: 694.
In 1939, fifty million Americans went to the movies every week, Louis B. Mayer was the highest-paid man in the country, and Hollywood produced 530 feature films a year. One decade and five thousand movies later, the studios were faltering. The 1940s became the decade of Hollywood's decline: anticommunist hysteria excommunicated some of its best talent, while a 1948 antitrust consent decree ended many of the business practices that had made the studio system so profitable. In this masterful work of cultural history, the legendary Otto Friedrich tells the story of Hollywood's heyday and decline in a vivid narrative ... Read more
In 1939, fifty million Americans went to the movies every week, Louis B. Mayer was the highest-paid man in the country, and Hollywood produced 530 feature films a year. One decade and five thousand movies later, the studios were faltering. The 1940s became the decade of Hollywood's decline: anticommunist hysteria excommunicated some of its best talent, while a 1948 antitrust consent decree ended many of the business practices that had made the studio system so profitable. In this masterful work of cultural history, the legendary Otto Friedrich tells the story of Hollywood's heyday and decline in a vivid narrative ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
736
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
736
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780062326041
SKU
V9780062326041
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About Otto Friedrich
Otto Friedrich (1929-1995) was a journalist and cultural historian. A contributing editor at The Saturday Evening Post and Time magazine, he was the author of fourteen books, including Before the Deluge: A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s.
Reviews for CIty of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940´s
"A 'City of Nets' is what Mr. Friedrich calls Hollywood in the title of his new social history... Mr. Friedrich's intelligent prose makes for fascinating reading."
New York Times Book Review "What happened in these 10 years is as rich and colorful a story as can be imagined and Friedrich has more than done it justice ... in a ... Read more
New York Times Book Review "What happened in these 10 years is as rich and colorful a story as can be imagined and Friedrich has more than done it justice ... in a ... Read more