Boom and Bust: The American Cinema in the 1940s by Thomas Schatz

Boom and Bust: The American Cinema in the 1940s

History of the American Cinema #6

Thomas Schatz

571 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative slow-paced
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If 1939 was "Hollywood's Greatest Year," the beginning of the 1940s saw the film industry poised for an era of stability and dominance. Events turned out otherwise. At midnight on 31 December 1949 a "consent decree," resulting from the famous Para...

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