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020 _a9780415968133 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 _a9780415968140 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 _a9780203152508 (e-book : alk. paper)
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082 0 0 _a791.430973
100 1 _aElsaesser, Thomas.
245 1 4 _aThe persistence of Hollywood /
_cby Thomas Elsaesser.
260 _aNew York, NY :
_bRoutledge,
_c2012.
300 _aviii, 395 p. ;
_c26 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aFlashback: of objects of love and objects of study. Film studies in Britain: cinephilia, screen theory and cultural studies -- The name for a pleasure that has no substitute: Vincente Minnelli -- All the lonely places: the heroes of Nicholas Ray -- Sam Fuller's productive pathologies: the hero as (his own best) enemy -- Cinephilia: or the uses of disenchantment -- Genius of the system. The persistence of Hollywood, Part I: the continuity principle -- Why Hollywood? -- Narrative cinema and audience aesthetics: the mise-en-scáene of the spectator -- Film as system: or how to step through an open door -- Gangsters and grapefruits: the public enemy -- Studio and genre: auteurs maudits, mavericks and eminent Europeans. -- Transatlantic triangulations: William Dieterle and the Warner Bros biopics -- Welles and virtuosity: Citizen Kane as character-mask -- The dandy in Hitchcock -- Too big and too close: Alfred Hitchcock and Fritz Lang -- Robert Altman's Nashville: putting on the show -- Stanley Kubrick's prototypes: the author as world-maker -- Genie out of the bottle: the return of the system as auteur? -- The pathos of failure: notes on the unmotivated hero -- Auteur cinema and the new economy Hollywood -- The love that never dies: Francis Ford Coppola and Bram Stoker's Dracula -- The blockbuster as time machine -- Auteurism today: signature products, concept-authors and access for all: Avatar -- The persistence of Hollywood. Digital Hollywood: between truth, belief and trust -- The persistence of Hollywood, Part II: reflexivity, feedback and self-regulation.
520 _aExamines various paradigms for reading Hollywood and its cinema. This volume also explores a range of topics from cinephilia and auteurs - Nicholas Ray, Sam Fuller, Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, among others - to melodrama, digital cinema, and even time- travel films.
650 0 _aMotion pictures
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aMotion picture industry
_zUnited States.
650 4 _a20160300.
650 4 _aIndustria cinematográfica
_zEstados Unidos.
650 4 _aCine estadounidense
_xTemas, motivos.
650 4 _aMafia
_xInfluencia
_zHollywood (Estados Unidos)
650 4 _aCine
_zHollywood (Estados Unidos)
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