America at the Movies

by Margaret Farrand Thorp

$250 · Offered by Back Creek Books

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1939. First Printing. Black and white photographs. Cloth over boards. Octavo. xii, 313 pages. A brilliant and influential study of the movies during Hollywood's golden age. Thorp examines the massive influence moving pictures had on their audiences, but also the ways the audiences influenced the pictures being made.

• Printing: first

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