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Reference Literature to American Cinema (general)

  • History of the American Cinema:
    - 1. Charles Musser: The Emergence of Cinema. The American Screen to 1907. New York 1990 - (essays/books by Ch.Musser)
    - 2. Eileen Bowser: The Transformation of Cinema 1907- 1915. New York 1990
    - 3. Richard Koszarski: An Evening´s Entertainment. The Age of the Silent Feature Picture, 1915-1928. New York 1990
    - 4. Donald Crafton: The Talkies. American Cinema´s Transition to Sound, 1926-1931. Berkeley 1997
    - 5. Tino Balio: Grand Design. Hollywood as a Modern Business Enterprise, 1930-1939. New York 1993
    - 6. Thomas Schatz: Boom and Bust. The American Cinema in the 1940s. New York 1997
    - 7. Peter Lev: The Fifties. Transforming the Screen, 1950-1959. Berkeley: U.of California Pr, 2006
    - 8. Paul Monaco: The Sixties. 1960-1969. Berkeley 2003
    - 9. David A. Cook: Lost Illusions. American Cinema in the Shadow of Watergate and Vietnam, 1970-1979. New York 2000
    - 10. Stephen Prince: A New Pot of Gold. Hollywood under the Electronic Rainbow, 1980-1989. New York 2000
  • Jostein Gripsrud: The Dynasty Years. Hollywood, Television, and Critical Media Studies. London, New York 1995
  • Nick Browne (Ed.): Refiguring American Film Genres. History and Theory. Berkeley 1998
  • Andrew Sarris: You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet! The American Talking Film, History and Memory, 1927-1949. Chicago 1998
  • Wheeler Winston Dixon: Disaster and Memory. Celebrity Culture and the Crisis of Hollywood Cinema. New York 1999
  • Vinzenz Hediger: Verführung zum Film. Der amerikanische Kinotrailer seit 1912. Marburg 2001
  • Harry Benshoff and Sean Griffin: America on Film. Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality at the Movies. Malden/Mass 2003
  • Richard Maltby: Hollywood Cinema. London & New York 20032 - (essays/books by R.Maltby)
  • David Thomson: The Whole Equation. A History of Hollywood. New York 2004
  • Peter Decherney: Hollywood and the Culture Elite. How the Movies Became American. New York: Columbia UP, 2005
  • Mark Wheeler: Hollywood. Politics and Society. London: bfi, 2006
  • Jon Lewis / Eric Smoodin (Eds.): Looking Past the Screen. Case Studies in American Film History and Method. Durham: Duke UP, 2007
see also:

OV: USA

Exile/Emigration

Nickelodeon

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