Contemporary Hollywood Cinema (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Neale, Steve; Smith, Murray

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135108830
• Artikelnr.: 39042068

Autorenporträt

STEVE NEALE, Murray Smith

Inhaltsangabe

List if illustrations and permissions
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I. Hollywood historiography
1. Theses on the philosophy of Hollywood history
2. 'Nobody knows everything': post-classical historiographies and consolidated entertainment
PART II. Economics
industry and institutions
3. Hollywood corporate business practice and periodizing contemporary film history
4. 'A major presence in all of the world's important markets': the globalization of Hollywood in the 1990s
5. The formation of the 'major independent': Miramax
New Line and the New Hollywood
6. To the rear of the back end: the economics of independent cinema
PART III. Aesthetics and technology
7. From Bwana Devil to Batman Forever: technology in contemporary Hollywood cinema
8. Widescreen composition in the age of television
9. The classical film score forever? Batman
Batman Returns and post-classical film music
10. A cry in the dark: the role of post-classical film sound
11. A close encounter with Raiders oj the Lost Ark: notes on narrative aspects of the New Hollywood blockbuster
12. Storytelling: classical Hollywood cinema and classical narrative
13. Specularity and engulfment: Francis Ford Coppola and Bram Stoker's Dracula
PART IV. Audience
address and ideology
14. Hollywood and independent black cinema
15. No fixed address: the women's picture from Outrage to Blue Steel
16. New Hollywood's new women: murder in mind - Sarah and Margie
17. Censorship and narrative indeterminacy in Basic Instinct: 'You won't learn anything from me I don't want you to know'
18. Rich and strange: the yuppie horror film
19. Would you take your child to see this film? The cultural and social work of the family-adventure movie
Select biblio8raphy
Index