America in the Movies
Or, "Santa Maria, It Had Slipped My Mind"
by Michael Wood
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'America in the Movies is a brilliant romp through the fertile field of Hollywood's vision of America in the 1940s and 50s. With geniality and insight, Michael Wood exposes the tangle of fantasy and reality in the waning days of the studio system.' -- Leo Braudy, University of Southern California
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