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2024 FSEM 1010-23: The Golden Age of Hollywood (Prof. Bolon): HamCAT for Discovery

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  • Motion picture studios
  • Motion picture industry--United States--history
  • Western films
  • Comedy films--History and Criticism
  • Women in motion pictures
  • Musical films--United States--History and criticism

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Types of Content you will Find in HamCAT

Ebooks
Christensen, J. (2011). America’s Corporate Art: The Studio Authorship of Hollywood Motion Pictures (1st ed.). Stanford University Press.

Goldmark, D., & Keil, C. (2011). Funny pictures : animation and comedy in studio-era Hollywood (1st ed.). University of California Press. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520950122

Jurca, C. (2012). Hollywood 1938 : motion pictures’ greatest year (1st ed.). University of California Press. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520951969

Salzberg, A. (2014). Beyond the looking glass: narcissism and female stardom in studio-era hollywood (1st ed.). Berghahn Books. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782384007


Print Books

Furia, P. (2002). American song lyricists, 1920-1960. Gale Group. Hamline Bush Library, 3rd Floor ; ML102 .P66 A43 2002

Griffith, R., & Mayer, A. (1957). The movies; the sixty-year story of the world of Hollywood and its effect on America, from pre-nickelodeon days to the present. Simon and Schuster. Hamline Bush Library, 3rd Floor ; PN1993.5.U6 G7

Stevens, G. (2006). Conversations with the great moviemakers of Hollywood’s golden age at the American Film Institute (1st ed.). A. A. Knopf. Order from a MnPALS member library in HamCAT.

Thomson, D. (2005). The whole equation : a history of Hollywood (1st ed.). Alfred A. Knopf. Hamline Bush Library, 3rd Floor ; PN1993.5 .U65 T56 2005

Articles (magazine, newspaper)

dham, J. (2023). An Eye for the Cameras. In American cinematographer (Vol. 104, Number 8, pp. 44–51). American Society of Cinematographers.

Rozbrook, R. (1998). The real Mr. Hollywood: Harry Sugarman never met a movie star he didn’t like. (personalities from the golden age of Hollywood). In Los Angeles magazine (Vol. 43, Number 2, pp. 19-). Emmis Publishing L.P. dba Los Angeles Magazine.

 

Scholarly Journal Articles

El-Khoury, T. I. (2018). Marriage and Its Representations in Classical Hollywood Comedy (1934-1945) : Stanley Cavell, the Concept of Skepticism and Kierkegaards Legacy. Journal for Religion, Film and Media, 4(2), 23–27. https://doi.org/10.25364/05.4:2018.2.2

Fisk, C. (2016). Costumes from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Textile History, 47(1), 120–124. https://doi.org/10.1080/00404969.2016.1148405

Wallin, Z. (2019). “Pictures Seem to Run in Cycles”: Industry Discourse and the Economics of Film Cycles in Classical Hollywood. Film History (New York, N.Y.), 31(1), 81–101. https://doi.org/10.2979/filmhistory.31.1.04
 

Video and Audio resources

Dye, P., & Pugliese, D. J. (2003). 100 years of comedy. Passport Video. REQUEST FROM MnPALS LIBRARY

Insdorf, A., & Thomas, L. (1995). American cinema. 13, Classical Hollywood today. Annenberg Learner.

Dissertations

Polley, S. J. (2017). Embracing star couples : contextualising star images in hollywood’s studio era. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.