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
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Since the 1960s, there has been a proliferation of terms designating more-or-less fundamental shifts in the nature - and thus the appropriate periodization - of Hollywood cinema: the New Hollywood, the New New Hollywood, post-classicism, and more indirectly, post-Fordism and postmodernism. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
yuppie horror films, blaxploitation formula, independent black cinema, classical film score, adult melodramas, independent black filmmakers, plantation genre, widescreen frame, safe action area, compositional norms, saturation booking, black spectatorship, widescreen films, classical cinema, theatrical market, widescreen formats, top grossers, package production, black independents, television screenings, studio era, major film companies, ancillary markets, classical narrative, historical poetics Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, New Line, Time Warner, Basic Instinct, Batman Returns, Los Angeles Times, Spike Lee, Forrest Gump, Jurassic Park, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Tino Balio, United States, David Bordwell, Twentieth Century Fox, John Belton, York Times, Columbia University Press, Light Trap, Pacific Heights, Johnny Boz, Lew Wasserman, Star Wars, Danny Elfman, Geraldine Fabrikant, Sarah Connor New!
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Since the 1960s, there has been a proliferation of terms designating more-or-less fundamental shifts in the nature - and thus the appropriate periodization - of Hollywood cinema: the New Hollywood, the New New Hollywood, post-classicism, and more indirectly, post-Fordism and postmodernism. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
yuppie horror films, blaxploitation formula, independent black cinema, classical film score, adult melodramas, independent black filmmakers, plantation genre, widescreen frame, safe action area, compositional norms, saturation booking, black spectatorship, widescreen films, classical cinema, theatrical market, widescreen formats, top grossers, package production, black independents, television screenings, studio era, major film companies, ancillary markets, classical narrative, historical poetics Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, New Line, Time Warner, Basic Instinct, Batman Returns, Los Angeles Times, Spike Lee, Forrest Gump, Jurassic Park, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Tino Balio, United States, David Bordwell, Twentieth Century Fox, John Belton, York Times, Columbia University Press, Light Trap, Pacific Heights, Johnny Boz, Lew Wasserman, Star Wars, Danny Elfman, Geraldine Fabrikant, Sarah Connor New!
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- The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style & Mode of Production to 1960 by David Bordwell on 8 pages
- Black American Cinema (AFI Film Readers) by Manthia Diawara on 6 pages
- The New Hollywood by Jim Hillier on 5 pages
- The American Film Industry by Tino Balio on 5 pages
- Film Sound: Theory and Practice by Elisabeth Weis on 4 pages
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- New Hollywood Cinema by Geoff King on 8 pages
- Movie Blockbusters by Julian Stringer on 8 pages
- New Hollywood Cinema: An Introduction by Geoff King on 7 pages
- Cinema and Cultural Modernity by BRANSTON on 6 pages
- Key Film Texts by Graham Roberts on 5 pages
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