Name: Contemporary Hollywood Cinema By STEVE NEALE
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Contemporary Hollywood Cinema by STEVE NEALE

A comprehensive overview of the film industry in Hollywood today, Contemporary Hollywood Cinema brings together leading international cinema scholars to explore the technology, institutions, film makers and movies of contemporary American film making.

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'An Impressive and authoritative collection - constitutes both an important intervention in the ongoing project of exploring and understanding Hollywood, and an indispensable teaching resource.' - Scope

'Several essays ... serve as very useful introductions to their areas.' - Screen

List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction 1. Hollywood Historiography Theses on the Philosophy of Hollywood History Murray Smith Nobody Knows Everything: Post-Classical Historiographies and Consolidated Entertainment Richard Maltby 2. Economics, Industry, and Institutions Hollywood Corporate Business Practice and Periodizing Contemporary Film History Douglas Gomery A Major Presence in All of the World 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 Shamus 3. Aesthetics and Technology From Bwana Devil to Batman Forever: Technology in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema Mike Allan Widescreen Composition in the Age of Television Steve Neale The Classical Score Forever?: Batman, Batman Forever and Post-classical Film Music Kevin 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 Questioning the Classical: Narrative and R rration in the Classical Hollywood Cinema Elizabeth Cowie Spectacularity and Engulfment: Francis Ford Coppola and Bram Stoker's Dracula Thomas Elsaesser 4. Audience, Address, and Ideology 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 Instinct: You won't Learn Anything From Me I Don't Want You To Know Steven Cohen 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 Kramer Select Bibliography Index

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ISBN 13

9780415170093

ISBN 10

0415170095

Title

Contemporary Hollywood Cinema by STEVE NEALE

Author

STEVE NEALE

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Hardback

Publisher

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Year published

19980709

Number of pages

360

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Contemporary Hollywood Cinema STEVE NEALE

Contemporary Hollywood Cinema by STEVE NEALE

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Contemporary Hollywood Cinema by STEVE NEALE

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