Description |
1 online resource (xxx, 392 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
Contents |
Grand Hotel -- Philadelphia Story -- The Maltese Falcon -- Meet Me in St. Louis |
Summary |
Speaking about the kind of filmmaking now known as Classic Hollywood, the most popular and influential cinema ever invented, Vincente Minnelli once gave away its secret: ""I feel that a picture that stays with you is made up of a hundred or more hidden things. They're things that the audience is not conscious of, but that accumulate."" What are those hidden things? Can we invent a method that will enable us to discover them? Robert Ray attempts to answer those questions by looking closely at four movies from the 1930-1945 period when the American studio system reached the peak of its economic |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
SUBJECT |
Meet me in St. Louis gnd |
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Philadelphia Story (Film) idszbz |
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Grand Hotel (Film) idszbz |
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Meet me in St. Louis (Film) idszbz |
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Maltese falcon (Film) idszbz |
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Philadelphia story. swd |
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Maltese falcon <Film, 1941> swd |
Subject |
Motion pictures -- United States.
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ART -- Film & Video.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
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Motion pictures
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Film
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Film -- USA -- Geschichte 1900-1945.
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Filmästhetik.
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Film.
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United States
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USA
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USA.
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Hollywood.
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2006038592 |
ISBN |
9780198043447 |
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0198043449 |
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1299397247 |
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9781299397248 |
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0190295805 |
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9780190295806 |
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