"You ain't heard nothin yet" : the American talking film, history and memory, 1927-1949 / Andrew Sarris.

Author
Sarris, Andrew [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Description
x, 573 pages ; 24 cm

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    • Here is a history of American film, from the birth of the talkies (beginning with The Jazz Singer and Al Jolson's memorable line "You ain't heard nothin' yet") to the decline of the studio system. By far the largest section of the book celebrates the great American film directors, with the work of giants such as John Ford, Alfred Hitchcock, Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles, and Howard Hawks examined film by film.
    • Sarris also offers glowing portraits of major stars, from Garbo and Bogart to Ingrid Bergman, Margaret Sullavan, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hapburn, Clark Gable, and Carole Lombard. There is a tour of the studios - Metro, Paramount, RKO, Warner Brothers, 20th Century-Fox, Universal - revealing how each left its own particular stamp on film.
    • And in perhaps the most interesting and original section, we are treated to an informative look at film genres - the musical, the screwball comedy, the horror picture, the gangster film, and the western.
    Notes
    Includes index.
    Contents
    • 1. The Hollywood Studios. The Studio Mystique. The Myth of Metro. The Panache of Paramount. Warner Brothers. 20th Century-Fox. RKO. Universal. Columbia Pictures
    • 2. Genres. The Musical. The Gangster Film. The Horror Film. The Screwball Comedy. The Western. The Film Noir. The War Film
    • 3. The Directors. D. W. Griffith. King Vidor. Charles Chaplin. Buster Keaton. Harold Lloyd. John Ford. Josef von Sternberg. Alfred Hitchcock. Howard Hawks. Orson Welles. Ernest Lubitsch. Preston Sturges. Billy Wilder. Leo McCarey. George Cukor. William Wyler. Frank Capra. George Stevens. Frank Borzage. John Stahl. Max Ophuls
    • 4. Actors and Actresses. Greta Garbo. James Cagney. Edward G. Robinson. Humphrey Bogart. Bette Davis. Cary Grant. Margaret Sullavan. Ingrid Bergman. Irene Dunne. Myrna Loy. Norma Shearer. Jean Harlow. Barbara Stanwyck. Claudette Colbert. W. C. Fields. The Marx Brothers. Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn.
    • Clark Gable and Carole Lombard. Vivien Leigh
    • 5. Guilty Pleasures. The B-Picture. Louise Brooks. Mary Astor. Anne Baxter. Wanda Hendrix. Gaslight. Lost Horizon. My Foolish Heart. App. I. Academy Awards: Nominations and Winners, 1927-1949
    • App. II. New York Film Critics Circle Awards, 1935-1949
    • App. III. Best Directors, 1927-1949
    • App. IV. Best Performances, 1929-1949.
    ISBN
    0195038835 (alk. paper)
    LCCN
    97009476
    OCLC
    503994204
    RCP
    C - S
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