Library of Congress Subject Headings
Library of Congress subject headings use standardized terminology to help you find books on a given subject. These active links below are a sample of possibly relevant subject headings for researching the history of the U.S. film industry. You can find them together with other subject headings in the catalog records for individual books in discoverE.
Sample subject headings:
- African Americans in the motion picture industry
- Internet entertainment industry -- United States
- Motion picture industry -- California -- Los Angeles -- History
- Motion picture studios -- California -- Los Angeles -- History
- Motion picture industry -- Technological innovations
- Motion picture industry -- United States -- History
- Motion picture industry -- United States -- History -- 21st century
- Motion pictures and video games
- Netflix (Firm)
- Streaming technology (Telecommunications)
- Video games industry
- Walt Disney Company
- Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967)
A Piece of the Action by ISBN: 9780231164368Publication Date: 2019-12-31Hollywood is often thought of--and certainly by Hollywood itself--as a progressive haven. However, in the decade after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, the film industry grew deeply conservative when it came to conflicts over racial justice. Amid black self-assertion and white backlash, many of the most heated struggles in film were fought over employment. In A Piece of the Action, Eithne Quinn reveals how Hollywood catalyzed wider racial politics, through representation on screen as well as in battles over jobs and resources behind the scenes. Based on extensive archival research and detailed discussions of films like In the Heat of the Night, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, Super Fly, Claudine, and Blue Collar, this volume considers how issues of race and labor played out on the screen during the tumultuous early years of affirmative action. Quinn charts how black actors leveraged their performance capital to force meaningful changes to employment and film content. She examines the emergence of Sidney Poitier and other African Americans as A-list stars; the careers of black filmmakers such as Melvin Van Peebles and Ossie Davis; and attempts by the federal government and black advocacy groups to integrate cinema. Quinn also highlights the limits of Hollywood's liberalism, showing how predominantly white filmmakers, executives, and unions hid the persistence of racism behind feel-good stories and public-relations avowals of tolerance. A rigorous analysis of the deeply rooted patterns of racial exclusion in American cinema, A Piece of the Action sheds light on why conservative and corporate responses to antiracist and labor activism remain pervasive in today's Hollywood.
Voices of Labor by ISBN: 9780520968196Publication Date: 2017-03-03Motion pictures are made, not mass produced, requiring a remarkable collection of skills, self-discipline, and sociality--all of which are sources of enormous pride among Hollywood's craft and creative workers. The interviews collected here showcase the ingenuity, enthusiasm, and aesthetic pleasures that attract people to careers in the film and television industries. They also reflect critically on changes in the workplace brought about by corporate conglomeration and globalization. Rather than offer publicity-friendly anecdotes by marquee celebrities, Voices of Labor presents off-screen observations about the everyday realities of Global Hollywood. Ranging across job categories--from showrunner to make-up artist to location manager--this collection features voices of labor from Los Angeles, Atlanta, Prague, and Vancouver. Together they show how seemingly abstract concepts like conglomeration, financialization, and globalization are crucial tools for understanding contemporary Hollywood and for reflecting more generally on changes and challenges in the screen media workplace and our culture at large. Despite such formidable concerns, what nevertheless shines through is a commitment to craftwork and collaboration that provides the means to imagine and instigate future alternatives for screen media labor.
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History of the American Cinema series
Scribner's History of the American Cinema series is a good starting point for studying decade-by-decade historical trends with the U.S. film industry. Each volume is written by a leading film scholar in the field.
Musser, Charles. The Emergence of Cinema: the American screen to 1907. New York: Scribner, 1990.
Print: PN1993.5 .U6 H55 1990 V.1
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Bowser, Eileen. The transformation of cinema, 1907-1915. New York: Scribner, 1990.
Print: PN1993.5 .U6 H55 1990 V.2
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Koszarski, Richard. An evening’s entertainment : the age of the silent feature picture, 1915-1928. New York: Scribner, 1990.
Print: PN1993.5 .U6 H55 1990 V.3
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Crafton, Donald. The talkies : American cinema’s transition to sound, 1926-1931. New York: Scribner, 1997.
Print: PN1993.5 .U6 H55 1990 V.4
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Balio, Tino. Grand design : Hollywood as a modern business enterprise, 1930-1939. New York: Scribner, 1993.
Print: PN1993.5 .U6 H55 1990 V.5
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Schatz, Thomas. Boom and bust: the American cinema in the 1940s. New York: Scribner, 1997.
Print: PN1993.5 .U6 H55 1990 V.6
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Lev, Peter. Transforming the screen, 1950-1959. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2003.
Print: PN1993.5 .U6 L445 2003.
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Monaco, Paul. The sixties, 1960-1969. New York: Scribner, 2001.
Print: PN1993.5 .U6 H55 1990 V.8
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Cook, David A. Lost illusions : American cinema in the shadow of Watergate and Vietnam, 1970-1979. New York: Scribner, 2000.
Print: PN1993.5 .U6 H55 1990 V.9
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Prince, Stephen. A new pot of gold : Hollywood under the electronic rainbow, 1980-1989. New York: Scribner, 2000.
Print: PN1993.5 .U6 H55 1990 V.10
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