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<BODY bgcolor="#CCCCCC"> <font size="4"><p>The Golden Age of Exploitation</font> <font size="3"><br>An interview with Felicia Feaster and Bret Wood, <br>authors of FORBIDDEN FRUIT: The Golden Age of Exploitation Film.</font> <font size="2"><br>interview by Gary Johnson <b>T</b></font>hroughout the '30s and '40s, the major Hollywood studios owned the vast majority of theaters in America. The process, called vertical integration, ensured that Hollywood product would fill movie screens around the country--and exclude non-Hollywood product. Independent theaters had the opportunity to show Hollywood movies but only after the movies had already played for several months, even years, at the studio-run theaters. <p><a href="default-nf.htm">Go to article</a></font> </body>