About 20 years ago I was in a kind of partnership with another film historian who told me that, no, there wasn’t a market for a book on pre-code movies. I can only wonder what he thinks today after ...
Column: In the early ’30s, Hollywood’s ‘dictator craze’ offered a startling alternative to democracy
“The dictator craze,” they called it. In the worst of the Great Depression, a time of 25% unemployment, some called for an American-style dictatorship. Democracy wasn’t working very well, time for a ...
During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the American film industry faced a crisis. Theater attendance plummeted, forcing thousands of venues to close. Major studios with their own theater chains ...
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