Andrew Bergman

We're in the Money

Depression America and It's Films

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How Hollywood helped prop up the nation's fundamental institutions during the Great Depression. "First rate. It should stand for a long time as a pioneer work in a field where all too little has been written."-Alfred B. Rollins, Jr.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 325g
• ISBN-13: 9780929587851
• ISBN-10: 0929587855
• Artikelnr.: 22453584

Autorenporträt

Andrew Bergman, who studied history at the University of Wisconsin, is a Hollywood screenwriter whose films include Blazing Saddles, The In-Laws, Fletch, and The Freshman, which he also directed. He lives in New York City.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Introduction xi Part 2 A Note on the Movie Industry and the
Depression xix Part 3 PART ONE 1930-1933 Chapter 4 The Gangsters 3 Chapter
5 The Shyster and the City 18 Chapter 6 Some Anarcho-Nihilist Laff Riots 30
Chapter 7 Sex and Personal Relations: Women of the Streets, Women of the
World 49 Chapter 8 A Musical Interlude 62 Part 9 PART TWO 1933-1939 Chapter
10 Back to the Earth: King Kong and King Vidor 69 Chapter 11 The G-Man and
the Cowboy 83 Chapter 12 Warner Brothers Presents Social Consciousness 92
Chapter 13 The Mob and the Search for Authority, 1933-1937 110 Chapter 14
Frank Capra and Screwball Comedy, 1931-1941 132 Chapter 15 A Solution to
Environment: The Juvenile Delinquent 149 Chapter 16 Conclusions 167 Part 17
Notes 175 Part 18 Bibliography 187 Part 19 Index 195