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Contemporary Hollywood Cinema

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Contemporary Hollywood Cinema book

Contemporary Hollywood Cinema

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Contemporary Hollywood Cinema book

Edited BySTEVE NEALE, Murray Smith
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 1998
eBook Published 15 April 2013
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203349847
Pages 360 pages
eBook ISBN 9780203349847
SubjectsHumanities
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NEALE, S. (Ed.), Smith, M. (Ed.). (1998). Contemporary Hollywood Cinema. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203349847

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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

part |2 pages

PART I Hollywood historiography

chapter 1|18 pages

Theses on the philosophy of Hollywood history

chapter 2|24 pages

'Nobody knows everything': post-classical historiographies and consolidated entertainment

part |2 pages

PART II Economics, industry and institutions

chapter 3|11 pages

Hollywood corporate business practice and periodizing contemporary film history

chapter 4|16 pages

'A major presence in all of the world's important markets': the globalization of Hollywood in the 1990s

chapter 5|17 pages

The formation of the 'major independent': Miramax, New Line and the New Hollywood

chapter 6|16 pages

To the rear of the back end: the economics of independent cinema

part |2 pages

PART III Aesthetics and technology

chapter 7|21 pages

From Bwana Devil to Batman Forever: technology in contemporary Hollywood cinema

chapter 8|12 pages

Widescreen composition in the age of television

chapter 9|14 pages

The classical film score forever? Batman, Batman Returns and post-classical film music

chapter 10|10 pages

A cry in the dark: the role of post-classical film sound

chapter 11|12 pages

A close encounter with Raiders of the Lost Ark: notes on narrative aspects of the New Hollywood blockbuster

chapter 12|13 pages

Storytelling: classical Hollywood cinema and classical narrative

chapter 13|18 pages

Specularity and engulfment: Francis Ford Coppola and Bram Stoker's Dracula

part |2 pages

PART IV Audience, address and ideology

chapter 14|18 pages

Hollywood and independent black cinema

chapter 15|18 pages

No fixed address: the women's picture from Outrage to Blue Steel

chapter 16|16 pages

New Hollywood's new women: murder in mind — Sarah and Margie

chapter 17|17 pages

Censorship and narrative indeterminacy in Basic Instinct: 'You won't learn anything from me I don't want you to know'

chapter 18|14 pages

Rich and strange: the yuppie horror film

chapter 19|18 pages

Would you take your child to see this film? The cultural and social work of the family-adventure movie

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