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Hailed as the definitive work upon its original publication in 1975 and now extensively revised and updated by the author, this vastly absorbing and richly illustrated book examines film as an art form, technological innovation, big business, and shaper of American values.
Ever since Edison's peep shows first captivated urban audiences, film has had a revolutionary impact on American society, transforming culture from the bottom up, radically revising attitudes toward pleasure and sexuality, and at the same time, cementing the myth of the American dream. No book has measured film's impact more clearly or comprehensively than Movie-Made America.
This vastly readable and richly illustrated volume examines film as art form, technological innovation, big business, and cultural bellwether. It takes in stars from Douglas Fairbanks to Sly Stallone; auteurs from D. W. Griffith to Martin Scorsese and Spike Lee; and genres from the screwball comedy of the 1930s to the "hard body" movies of the 1980s to the independents films of the 1990s.
Combining panoramic sweep with detailed commentaries on hundreds of individual films, Movie-Made America is a must for any motion picture enthusiast.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B004FYZ3Q8
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vintage; Revised & Updated edition (October 31, 2012)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 31, 2012
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 14815 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 772 pages
Reviewer: James Killgo
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Movie Made America
Review: I was assigned this as reading in my History and Film class. It covers everything from the beginning of film with Edison and the creation of the first projectors up to the 80's. Sklar presents the material in an easy to read way, its not too much information for those who are not familiar with this area of history. At times it can be a little monotonous, listing film after film and its relevance, but if you can get through it, you will learn a decent amount about the films. It is not a comprehensive work but a good start if you are interested. It will make you go and watch some of those old historical classics.

Reviewer: Sam
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: great read
Review: needed this for a class in film but turned out to be great read and I really recommend it to anyone interested in films and the industry not just to students

Reviewer: T
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Very informational and well written
Review: I used this book for a film class. It is written well and engaging to read. provides a great overview of the hostory of American film.

Reviewer: Kindle Customer
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Good read
Review: A little disappointed. The book is all black and white with no pictures. I thought being about film it would be more colorful and entertaining.

Reviewer: Zintka
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Late
Review: Long saga getting this order filled. Great book, "New" text pretty banged-up, however.

Reviewer: Glenn Ralston
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: much more than "the definitive work"
Review: Isn't this more than "the definitive work"? One could imagine its insights and grand scope to be inspiring and instructive for the later reflections that were to shape the concerns that became the American Museum of the Moving Image. As in along the lines that society shapes the individuals who shape society, we have here no less than "media shaped culture". Forwards, or backwards to the future, these illuminations give us sober pause to consider those powers -- and so by extension -- to be afraid of our forthcoming "videogame savageries". When you and I look back to those early inventions which are now mirrored by today's electronic magic, we might be both tickled and informed -- and afraid for Columbine.

Reviewer: Kindle Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Format Error
Review: A scholarly book, but entire pages are missing in this edition!

Reviewer: Mark S. Snyder
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Highly over-rated
Review: While I realize that Robert Sklar's Movie Made America is a regularly used text in many university film courses, I can only surmise that this may be why so many film classes are boring. While Skylar's book is somewhat comprehensive as far as it goes, it is not only overly pedantic but it is written with no determinable sense of chronology. While it is subtitled "A Cultural History of American Movies," it is more a social history of early Hollywood with an emphasis on the old studio system and those early personages which comprised that system. Furthermore, easily one-third of the book is dedicated to the first twenty years of American film making.I purchased this book for adoption in a university film course that I teach which has as its emphasis the cultural underpinnings of American Film. While my students appreciated that the book was inexpensive, both the students and I agreed that the book was uninspired, unexciting, unimaginative, unattractive, unintelligible, and nearly unreadable. Additionally, it is cheap looking; it is printed on cheap paper which allowed bleed-through of the ink; and the photographs are reproduced with less quality than you would find in a newspaper. I am going back to John Belton's book, American Cinema, American Culture, next semester.

Reviewer: Florin Irimia
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: State of the book as advertised. The cover was smudged in several places but nothing that you can't solve with a wet wipe.

Reviewer: DHINNIN Marie-Laure
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Un classique sur l'histoire du cinéma américain qui traite de façon exhaustive de plusieurs problématiques propres à la culture visuelle américaine.

Reviewer: olipop
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Le livre était comme convenu, d'occasion. Par contre, on aurait pu me prévenir qu'il avait été stabyloté, parce que alors là, c'est pas les coup de surligneurs qui manquaient!Mais bon, c'est d'occasion...