The Entertainment Machine: American Show Business in the Twentieth CenturyThis lively, lavishly illustrated book explains the effects of the age of technology on American show business. Ranging over nearly a century, but as up-to-date as the latest box-office hits, the book traces the development of the major electronic media, then compares the treatment of popular genres in each of the different media. |
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Everybodys Doin | 100 |
Goodness Had Little To Do with | 182 |
Bibliographic Essay | 245 |
Copyright | |
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