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Contemporary Hollywood cinema / edited by Steve Neale and Murray Smith.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.Description: xxii, 338 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0415170095
  • 0415170109 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.430979494
LOC classification:
  • PN 1993.5 C761 1998
Online resources:
Contents:
Theses on the philosophy of Hollywood history / Murray Smith -- 'Nobody knows everything' : post-classical historiographies and consolidated entertainment / Richard Maltby -- Hollywood corporate business practice and periodizing contemporary film history / Douglas Gomery -- 'A major presence in all of the world's important markets' : the globalization of Hollywood in the 1990s / Tino Balio -- The formation of the 'major independent' : Miramax, New Line and the new Hollywood / Justin Wyatt -- To the rear of the back end : the economics of independent cinema / James Schamus -- From Bwana devil to Batman forever : technology in contemporary Hollywood cinema / Michael Allen -- Widescreen composition in the age of television / Steve Neale -- The classical film score forever? Batman, Batman returns and post-classical film music / K.J. Donnelly -- A cry in the dark : the role of post-classical film sound / Gianluca Sergi -- A close encounter with Raiders of the lost ark : notes on narrative aspects of the new Hollywood blockbuster / Warren Buckland -- Storytelling : classical Hollywood cinema and classical narrative / Elizabeth Cowie -- Specularity and engulfment : Francis Ford Coppola and Bram Stoker's Dracula / Thomas Elsaesser -- Hollywood and independent black cinema / Tommy L. Lott -- No fixed address : the women's picture from Outrage to Blue steel / Pam Cook -- New Hollywood's new women : murder in mind : Sarah and Margie / Hilary Radner -- Censorship and narrative indeterminacy in Basic instict : 'you won't learn anything from me I don't want you to know' / Steven Cohan -- Rich and strange : the yuppie horror film / Barry Keith Grant -- Would you take your child to see this film? The cultural and social work of the family-adventure movie / Peter Krämer
Summary: This is a comprehensive view of the film industry in Hollywood today. It brings together leading international cinema scholars to explore the technology, institutions, film makers and movies of contemporary American film making.
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Theses on the philosophy of Hollywood history / Murray Smith -- 'Nobody knows everything' : post-classical historiographies and consolidated entertainment / Richard Maltby -- Hollywood corporate business practice and periodizing contemporary film history / Douglas Gomery -- 'A major presence in all of the world's important markets' : the globalization of Hollywood in the 1990s / Tino Balio -- The formation of the 'major independent' : Miramax, New Line and the new Hollywood / Justin Wyatt -- To the rear of the back end : the economics of independent cinema / James Schamus -- From Bwana devil to Batman forever : technology in contemporary Hollywood cinema / Michael Allen -- Widescreen composition in the age of television / Steve Neale -- The classical film score forever? Batman, Batman returns and post-classical film music / K.J. Donnelly -- A cry in the dark : the role of post-classical film sound / Gianluca Sergi -- A close encounter with Raiders of the lost ark : notes on narrative aspects of the new Hollywood blockbuster / Warren Buckland -- Storytelling : classical Hollywood cinema and classical narrative / Elizabeth Cowie -- Specularity and engulfment : Francis Ford Coppola and Bram Stoker's Dracula / Thomas Elsaesser -- Hollywood and independent black cinema / Tommy L. Lott -- No fixed address : the women's picture from Outrage to Blue steel / Pam Cook -- New Hollywood's new women : murder in mind : Sarah and Margie / Hilary Radner -- Censorship and narrative indeterminacy in Basic instict : 'you won't learn anything from me I don't want you to know' / Steven Cohan -- Rich and strange : the yuppie horror film / Barry Keith Grant -- Would you take your child to see this film? The cultural and social work of the family-adventure movie / Peter Krämer

This is a comprehensive view of the film industry in Hollywood today. It brings together leading international cinema scholars to explore the technology, institutions, film makers and movies of contemporary American film making.

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