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Hollywood on the Hudson
Film and Television in New York from Griffith to Sarnoff
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English
Published/Copyright:
2008
About this book
In Hollywood on the Hudson, Richard Koszarski rewrites an important part of the history of American cinema. During the 1920s and 1930s, film industry executives had centralized the mass production of feature pictures in a series of gigantic film factories scattered across Southern California, while maintaining New York as the economic and administrative center. But as Koszarski reveals, many writers, producers, and directors also continued to work here, especially if their independent vision was too big for the Hollywood production line.
Author / Editor information
RICHARD KOSZARSKI is an associate professor of English and film studies at Rutgers University, and the editor-in-chief of Film History: An International Journal. His books include The Man You Loved to Hate: Erich von Stroheim and Hollywood and An Evening's Entertainment: The Age of the Silent Feature Picture.
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"This huge, richly detailed revisionist history of the relationship between Hollywood and New York City from the turn of the 20th century until WWII is an enormously important, ceaselessly eye-opening work of Gotham-based cultural anthropology and archaeology. This book gives back to New York a continuous history of invention and creativity that, without Koszarski's Herculean labors, might have disappeared forever. Marvelous, invaluable, breathtaking film history."
— Directors Guild Quarterly"A perfect blend of Hollywood history, film analysis, and New York cultural history. Richard Koszarski is oneof the preemnient film historians of our time."
— Jeanine Basinger, chair of film studies, Wesleyan University"Koszarski offers a massive and intensely detailed study of New York-based filmmaking in the years between the world wars. Koszarski shows how New York-area filmmakers drew on a region chockablock with actors, directors, writers, artists, costumers, and other creative types."
— Chronicle of Higher Education"This is the definitive history of New York filmmaking in the first half of the twentieth century—and this is no small story or accomplishment."
— Steven J. Ross, author of Working-Class Hollywood: Silent Film and the Shaping of Class in AmerTopics
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Frontmatter
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CONTENTS
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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1 New York Pioneer
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2 Paramount on Long Island
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3 Freelance Filmmaking
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4 Studio City
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5 Edison’s Dream
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6 Paramount Speaks
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7 Talkies for Everyone
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8 Independent Alternatives
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9 Cartoons in the City
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10 Film and Reality
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11 Multicultural Revival
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12 A Miniature Hollywood
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13 Radio Visions
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14 Live from New York
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15 “We Have a City Here”
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Notes
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General Index
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Films and Television Programs Made in the East
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February 11, 2021
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9780813545523
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Keywords for this book
New Jersey; NJ; New Jersey regional interest; NJ regional interest; New Jersey and the Region; new york city; NY state; new york state; new york city and state; regional interest; u.s. history; us history; american history; united states history; american studies; film; media studies; communications; performing arts; film and video; history; film history; cinema studies; hollywood; hollywood studies; hollywood history; history and criticism; television; television history; Paramount; Paramount Studios; film culture; NYC; New york film; Griffith; Sarnoff; acting; film industry; movie industry; Southern California; film factories; non fiction; nonfiction; non-fiction; rutgers; rutgers university; rutgers university press
Audience(s) for this book
For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
