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Working-class Hollywood
silent film and the shaping of class in America
By Ross, Steven S.
- ISBN
- 978-0-69103-234-4
- Publisher
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1998.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on December 2, 1997
Ross (history, Univ. of Southern California) offers a thought-provoking examination of silent film and its social reverberations. This medium provided the earliest, cheapest, and most far-reaching form of entertainment to capture the public, frequently portraying working-class life with truth and empathy. These productions made defin...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
