Boom and Bust: American Cinema in the 1940s (History of the American Cinema)

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Advisory Board......Page 7 Contents......Page 9 Acknowledgments......Page 11 Contributors......Page 13 1. Introduction......Page 15 Part 1. The Prewar Era......Page 22 2. The Motion Picture Industry in 1940-1941......Page 23 3. The Hollywood Studio System in 1940-1941......Page 53 4. Prewar Stars, Genres, and Production Trends......Page 91 Part 2. The War Era......Page 140 5. The Motion Picture Industry During World War II......Page 142 6. The Hollywood Studio System, 1942-1945......Page 180 7. Wartime Stars, Genres, and Production Trends......Page 214 8. Regulating the Screen: The Office of War Information and the Production Code Administration......Page 273 Part 3. The Postwar Era......Page 293 9. The Postwar Motion Picture Industry......Page 295 10. The Hollywood Studio System, 1946-1949......Page 339 11. Postwar Stars, Genres, and Production Trends......Page 363 Part 4. Ancillary Developments......Page 405 12. Documenting the 1940s......Page 406 13. Television and Hollywood in the 1940s......Page 431 14. Experimental and Avant-Garde Cinema in the 1940s......Page 454 Appendix 1. Total Number of Theaters in the United States, 1940-1950......Page 470 Appendix 2. Average Weekly Attendance in the United States, 1940-1950......Page 471 Appendix 3. Number of Feature Films Released in the United States, 1940-1949......Page 472 Appendix 4. Major Studio Revenues and Profits, 1940-1949......Page 473 Appendix 5. Top Box-Office Pictures, 1940-1949......Page 475 Appendix 6. Exhibitors' Poll of Top Ten Box-Office Stars, 1940-1949......Page 478 Appendix 7. Major Academy Awards, 1940-1949......Page 481 Appendix 8. National Board of Review, 1940-1949......Page 488 Notes......Page 492 Bibliography......Page 535