The ABCs of classic Hollywood / Robert B. Ray.

By:

Ray, Robert B. (Robert Beverley), 1943-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.Description: 1 online resource (xxx, 392 pages) : illustrations (some color)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780198043447
0198043449
1299397247
9781299397248

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: ABCs of classic Hollywood.DDC classification:

791.430973 22

LOC classification:

PN1993.5.U6 R377 2008eb

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Contents:

Grand Hotel -- Philadelphia Story -- The Maltese Falcon -- Meet Me in St. Louis.

Summary: Speaking about the kind of filmmaking now known as Classic Hollywood, the most popular and influential cinema ever invented, Vincente Minnelli once gave away its secret: ""I feel that a picture that stays with you is made up of a hundred or more hidden things. They're things that the audience is not conscious of, but that accumulate."" What are those hidden things? Can we invent a method that will enable us to discover them? Robert Ray attempts to answer those questions by looking closely at four movies from the 1930-1945 period when the American studio system reached the peak of its economic

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Grand Hotel -- Philadelphia Story -- The Maltese Falcon -- Meet Me in St. Louis.

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Speaking about the kind of filmmaking now known as Classic Hollywood, the most popular and influential cinema ever invented, Vincente Minnelli once gave away its secret: ""I feel that a picture that stays with you is made up of a hundred or more hidden things. They're things that the audience is not conscious of, but that accumulate."" What are those hidden things? Can we invent a method that will enable us to discover them? Robert Ray attempts to answer those questions by looking closely at four movies from the 1930-1945 period when the American studio system reached the peak of its economic

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