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Author: STEVE NEALE (University of Exeter, UK) , Murray Smith
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.20cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.793kg
ISBN: 9780415170109
ISBN 10: 0415170109
Pages: 360
Publication Date: 09 July 1998
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Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print 
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Table of Contents
"Hollywood historiography theses on the philosophy of Hollywood history, Murray Smith; ""Nobody Knows Everything"" - post-classical historiographies and consolidated entertainment, Richard Maltby; 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; 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 narration in the classical Hollywood cinema, Elizabeth Cowie; spectacularity and engulfment - Francis Ford Coppola and ""Bram Stoker's Dracula"", Thomas Elsaesser; 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."
Reviews
'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
'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
Nineteen leading film theorists dissect the so-called New Hollywood in terms of technology, idealogy and aesthetics. Their subjects range from the yuppie nightmare movie ('After Hours', 'Something Wild', 'Fatal Attraction') to the role of music in modern Hollywood, from the riches of independent black cinema to widescreen composition in the age of television. It's heavy going at times - we are, after all, in the rarefied world of film theory - but anyone interested in the development of American film since the early 1970s should derive ample reward from this book. (Kirkus UK)
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