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Author Basinger, Jeanine, author.

Title Hollywood : the oral history / Jeanine Basinger and Sam Wasson.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022]
©2022

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Location Call No. Status
 GDL Chevy Chase Library Non-Fiction  New Shelf  791.4309 BAS    Available
1 copy being processed for GDL Central Library Non-Fiction.
Edition First edition.
Description xvi, 739 pages ; 25 cm
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Summary "The real story of Hollywood--as told by such luminaries as Steven Spielberg, Frank Capra, Katharine Hepburn, Alfred Hitchcock, Harold Lloyd, Jordan Peele, and nearly four hundred others--reveals a fresh history of the American movie industry from its beginnings to today"--Dust jacket flap.
Contents Beginnings -- Comedy -- Silent directors -- Sound! -- Studio heads -- Studio style -- The studio workforce -- The product -- The end of the system -- Identity crisis -- New Hollywood -- The creep up -- The deal -- Packaging -- Everybody's business -- Monsters.
Subject Motion picture industry -- California -- Los Angeles -- History.
Motion pictures -- California -- Los Angeles -- History.
Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Interviews.
Motion picture producers and directors -- United States -- Interviews.
Motion picture industry -- United States -- History.
Motion pictures -- United States -- History.
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- History.
Genre/Form Oral histories.
Added Author Wasson, Sam, author.
ISBN 9780063056947 (hardcover)
0063056941 (hardcover)

 
    
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