Identifying Hollywood's Audiences: Cultural Identity and the MoviesMelvyn Stokes, Richard Maltby Examines what Hollywood knew about its audiences between the 1920s and 1990s. This book looks at the methods the American motion picture industry has used to identify and understand its customers, and the ways in which that understanding has shaped the movies it produced. |
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Classical Hollywoods generic | 23 |
Female Audiences of the 1920s and early 1930s | 42 |
George Gallup and audience | 61 |
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