Author : Joel Waldo Finler
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 41,83 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781903364666
This fully revised and updated edition of an award-winning classic traces the history of Hollywood from the silent era to the present day. The Hollywood Storycomprehensively covers every aspect of movie-making in America, taking in nickelodeans, drive-ins and multiplexes; the transition from silent to sound, black and white to color; the relationships of producers, directors, stars and technicians; and the function and output of the studios - their major hits and most expensive flops.