City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940 SUniversity of California Press, 1997 M05 2 - 495 pages This dazzling story of Hollywood during the decade of its greatest success is a social and cultural history of the movie capital's golden age. Its cast includes actors, writers, musicians and composers, producers and directors, racketeers and labor leaders, journalists and politicians in the turbulent decade from World War II to Korea. |
Contents
Ingatherings 1940 | 31 |
Treachery 1941 | 61 |
Americanism 1942 | 105 |
Prejudice 1943 | 141 |
Reunions 1944 | 177 |
Breakdowns 1945 | 215 |
Treachery 1946 | 257 |
UnAmericanism 1947 | 291 |
Prejudice 1948 | 339 |
Expulsions 1949 | 375 |
Farewells 1950 | 415 |
Notes | 443 |
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