The Entertainment Machine: American Show Business in the Twentieth Century

by Robert C. Toll

Book Overview

This 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195032322
• ISBN13: 9780195032321
• Release Date: October 1982
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"