The classical Hollywood reader

The Classical Hollywood Reader brings together essential readings to provide a history of Hollywood from the 1910s to the mid 1960s. Following on from a Prologue that discusses the aesthetic characteristics of Classical Hollywood films, Part 1 covers the period between the 1910s and the mid-to-late 1920s. It deals with the advent of feature-length films in the US and the growing national and international dominance of the companies responsible for their production, distribution and exhibition. In doing so, it also ...

Introduction -- Emotional curves and linear narratives / Patrick Keating -- Feature films, Hollywood and the advent of the studio system, 1912-1926. The quality race: feature films and market dominance in the US and Europe in the 1910s / Berben Bakker -- Making movies, 1915-1928 / Richard Koszarski -- The limits of experimentation in Hollywood / Kristin Thompson -- Doing a man's work: the rise of the studio system and the remasculinization of filmmaking / Karen Ward Mahar -- Hollywood's conception of its audiences in the 1920s / Lea Jacobs and Andrea Comiskey -- Sound and the studio system, 1926-1946. The coming of sound: technological change in the American film industry / Douglas Gomery -- Hollywood babel: Ginette Vincendeau considers the coming of sound and the multiple language version / Ginette Vincendeau -- Organization / Howard T. Lewis -- Hollywood: the triumph of the studio system / Thomas Schatz -- Cinemagoing in the United States in the mid-1930s: a study based on the variety dataset / Mark Glancy and John Sedgwick -- Selling stars / Tino Balio -- Representation, technology, production and style, 1926-1946. The production code and the mythologies of "pre-code" hollywood…