
Boom and Bust
American Cinema in the 1940s
by Thomas Schatz
571 pages· 1999· ISBN 9780520221307
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"This book represents some of the finest scholarship in the field. . . . Schatz draws on a broad range of archival and trade press sources, and organizes his findings to highlight the dynamics of studio house styles, executive management and the production strategies of the major studios as the studio system coped with an array of 'momentous reversals.'"--Matthew Bernstein, author of "Walter Wanger, Hollywood Independent"
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