Hollywood and the movies of the fifties
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- This book ‘Hollywood and the movies of the fifties’ by Foster Hirsch is a personal, wide-screen approach to the best and worst of times for movies.
- Threatened by TV and the beginning of the end of the studio system, the 1950s was the “most turbulent decade in the history of the American filmmaking industry”—at least until 2020, writes the author.
- In this dauntingly lavish book, which will impress Hollywood film buffs but perhaps overwhelm general readers, the author neatly plumbs a wide range of topics.
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Threatened by TV and the beginning of the end of the studio system, the 1950s was the “most turbulent decade in the history of the American filmmaking industry”—at least until 2020, writes the author.
In this dauntingly lavish book, which will impress Hollywood film buffs but perhaps overwhelm general readers, the author neatly plumbs a wide range of topics. He profiles the ups and downs of some of the major studios, from the powerful Louis B. Mayer’s MGM to Mary Pickford and Charles Chaplin’s United Artists, which “nurtured” Stanley Kubrick.