Rosenbaum, Jonathan, 1943-

Movie wars : how Hollywood and the media limit what films we can see / Jonathan Rosenbaum. - Chicago, Illinois : A Cappella, c2000. - 234 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments v -- Introduction: Is the Producer Always Right? 1 -- Chapter One: Is the Cinema Really Dead? 19 -- Chapter Two: Some Vagaries of Distribution and Exhibition 39 -- Chapter Three: Some Vagaries of Promotion and Criticism 49 -- Chapter Four: At War with Cultural Violence: The Critical -- Reception of Small Soldiers 63 -- Chapter Five: Communications Problems and Canons 79 -- Chapter Six: The AFI’s Contribution to Movie Hell: or, How -- I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love American Movies 91 -- Chapter Seven: Isolationism as a Control System 107 -- Chapter Eight: Multinational Pest Control: Does American -- Cinema Still Exist? 129 -- Chapter Nine: Trafficking in Movies (Festival-Hopping -- in the Nineties) 143 -- Chapter Ten: Orson Welles as Ideological Challenge 175 -- Conclusion: The Audience Is Sometimes Right 197 -- Index 227.

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Motion pictures--United States.
Cine--Estados Unidos

PN 1993.5 / R813m 2000

791.430973