Overview :The story of the fallen woman was a staple of film melodrama in the late 1920s and 1930s. In traditional plots, a woman commits a sexual tra... Read More
Overview :John Ford at Work: Production Histories 1927-1939 explores the evolution of John Ford's career in the Hollywood studio system of the 1930s a... Read More
Overview :The Decline of Sentiment seeks to characterize the radical shifts in taste that transformed American film in the jazz age. Based upon extens... Read More
Overview :The seemingly effortless integration of sound, movement, and editing in films of the late 1930s stands in vivid contrast to the awkwardness ... Read More