Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: The Hollywood Quarterly, 1945–1957 xi
5. Editorial Statement 1
6. 1. The Avant-Garde
7. Experimental Cinema in America. Part One: 1921–1941 5
8. Experimental Cinema in America. Part Two: The Postwar Revival 28
9. The Avant-Garde Film Seen from Within 51
10. Cinema 16: A Showcase for the Nonfiction Film 57
11. 2. Animation
12. Animation Learns a New Language 63
13. Music and the Animated Cartoon 69
14. Notes on Animated Sound 77
15. Mr. Magoo as Public Dream 84
16. 3. Documentary
17. Postwar Patterns 91
18. The Documentary and Hollywood 100
19. Time Flickers Out: Notes on the Passing of the March of Time 109
20. 4. Radio
21. The Case of David Smith 119
22. Radio’s Attraction for Housewives 139
23. A New Kind of Diplomacy 152
24. 5. Practice
25. A Costume Problem: From Shop to Stage to Screen 161
26. Performance under Pressure 166
27. Designing The Heiress 180
28. The Limitations of Television 186
29. 6. Television
30. Hollywood in the Television Age 199
31. You and Television 205
32. Children’s Television Habits and Preferences 209
33. How to Look at Television 222
34. 7. The Hollywood Picture
35. Why Wait for Posterity? 243
36. Hollywood–Illusion and Reality 253
37. Negro Stereotypes on the Screen 256
38. Today’s Hero: A Review 259
39. An Exhibitor Begs for “B’s” 263
40. A Word of Caution for the Intelligent Consumer of Motion Pictures 271
41. There’s Really No Business Like Show Business 283
42. There’s Still No Business Like It 293
43. Hollywood’s Foreign Correspondents 300
44. 8. Scenes from Abroad
45. Advanced Training for Film Workers: Russia 311
46. Advanced Training for Film Workers: France 322
47. The Global Film 327
48. The Postwar French Cinema 334
49. When in Rome . . . 345
50. 9. Notes and Communications
51. J’Accuse 357
52. Je Confirme 360
53. The Cinémathèque Française 362
54. Jean Vigo 366
55. Two Views of a Director–Billy Wilder 370
56. Dialogue Between the Moviegoing Public and a Witness for Jean Cocteau 381
57. Selected Names Index 387
58. Selected Titles Index 391