The Movies: The Sixty-Year Story of the World of Hollywood and Its Effect on America, from Pre-Nickelodeon Days to the Present

442 pp. CONTENTS: The Birth of the Movies: The Nickelodeon Age; The Development of Narrative; The Formative Years: The Star System; The Movie Family; Comedy; Serials; Westerns; Fights; The World Before Your Eyes; World War I; The Golden Twenties: The Greatest Showman on Earth; Latin Lovers; Ruritania; Comedy in the Twenties; Westerns; Goodness; War in Retrospect; The Big Clean-up; But Flaming Youth Flamed On; Screen Art; Stars of the Twenties; Hollywood Is a State of Mind; The Talkie Revolution; The Grim Thirties: The Gangster Film; The Confession Film; Topical Films; Decency; The New Deal: Sweetness and Light; Comedy and Comedians; Return to Spectacle; The Message Pictures; Westerns of the Thirties; Stars of the Thirties; Hollywood in the Thirties; Interlude; World War II; The Postwar Decade: Mature Films; Old Reliables; Stars of the Forties and Fifties; Hollywood Today; Epilogue; Index.