An excellent book, HOLLYWOOD IN CRISIS: CINEMA AND AMERICAN SOCIETY,
1929-1939 by Colin Shindler (Routledge, 1996), views the film industry in
the economic, social, and political contexts of the time, without falling
into easy reflectionist conclusions, as many studies of this type tend to
do.
 
Dennis Bingham
Dept. of English
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
 
On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Elizabeth Haas wrote:
 
> Can anyone recommend a good book relating American economic history of the
> 1930s to Hollywood of that time?
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> E. Haas
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