Quart and Auster's American Film and Society Since 1945 is good for the
postwar period, as is Neve's Film and Politics in America. Polan's Power
and Paranoia: History, Narrative and the American Cinema, 1940-1950, I
think is excellent if that period is of any interest to you.
 
Cheers
 
Mike Gant
 
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Jeffrey Peter MacIntyre wrote:
 
> Is there any better book-length study of American culture and film
> --particularly in a similar, "cultural studies" vein-- than Robert
> Sklar's revised *Movie-made America*?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff MacIntyre
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