Reinventing Hollywood
How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling
- Contents
- Review Quotes
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Chapter 1 The Frenzy of Five Fat Years
Interlude: Spring 1940: Lessons from Our Town
Chapter 2 Time and Time Again
Interlude: Kitty and Lydia, Julia and Nancy
Chapter 3 Plots: The Menu
Interlude: Schema and Revision, between Rounds
Chapter 4 Slices, Strands, and Chunks
Interlude: Mankiewicz: Modularity and Polyphony
Chapter 5 What They Didn’t Know Was
Interlude: Identity Thieves and Tangled Networks
Chapter 6 Voices out of the Dark
Interlude: Remaking Middlebrow Modernism
Chapter 7 Into the Depths
Chapter 8 Call It Psychology
Interlude: Innovation by Misadventure
Chapter 9 From the Naked City to Bedford Falls
Chapter 10 I Love a Mystery
Interlude: Sturges, or Showing the Puppet Strings
Chapter 11 Artifice in Excelsis
Interlude: Hitchcock and Welles: The Lessons of the Masters
Conclusion The Way Hollywood Keeps Telling It
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association: Peter C. Rollins Book Award
Won
Theatre Library Association: Richard Wall Memorial Award
Finalist
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