Contemporary Hollywood Cinema,9780415170093

Contemporary Hollywood Cinema

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ISBN13: 9780415170093
ISBN10: 0415170095
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1998-08-13
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

Contemporary Hollywood Cinemaexamines recent changes in American filmmaking, from ballooning budgets to the evolving aethetics of the modern audience. Throughout, the contributors assess new and defining features of contemporary Hollywood such as the growth in star marketing, rather than movies or directors and the rise of the "major independent" production/distribution companies. Completely up-to-date, this collection tells us where Hollywood is today, and where we can expect it to be in the future. Contributors: Michael Allen, Tino Balio, Warren Buckland, Steven Cohan, Pam Cook, Elizabeth Cowie, Kevin Donnelly, Thomas Elsaesser, Douglas Gomery, Barry Keith Grant, Peter Kramer, Tommy Lott, Richard Maltby, Hilary Radner, James Schamus, Gianluca Sergi, Justin Wyatt.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations and permissions
viii(2)
Notes on contributors x(3)
Acknowledgements xiii(1)
Introduction xiv
PART I Hollywood historiography 1(44)
1 These on the philosophy of Hollywood history
3(18)
MURRAY SMITH
2 `Nobody knows everything': post-classical historiographies and consolidated entertainment
21(24)
RICHARD MALTBY
PART II Economics, industry and institutions 45(62)
3 Hollywood corporate business practice and periodizing contemporary film history
47(11)
DOUGLAS GOMERY
4 `A major presence in all of the world's important markets': the globalization of Hollywood in the 1990s
58(16)
TINO BALIO
5 The formation of the `major independent': Miramax, New Line and the New Hollywood
74(17)
JUSTIN WYATT
6 To the rear of the back end: the economics of independent cinema
91(16)
JAMES SCHAMUS
PART III Aesthetics and technology 107(102)
7 From Bwana Devil to Batman Forever: technology in contemporary Hollywood cinema
109(21)
MICHAEL ALLEN
8 Widescreen composition in the age of television
130(12)
STEVE NEALE
9 The classical film score forever? Batman, Batman Returns and post-classical film music
142(14)
K.J. DONNELLY
10 A cry in the dark: the role of post-classical film sound
156(10)
GIANLUCA SERGI
11 A close encounter with Raiders of the Lost Ark: notes on narrative aspects of the New Hollywood blockbuster
166(12)
WARREN BUCKLAND
12 Storytelling: classical Hollywood cinema and classical narrative
178(13)
ELIZABETH COWIE
13 Specularity and engulfment: Francis Ford Coppola and Bram Stoker's Dracula
191(18)
THOMAS ELSAESSER
PART IV Audience, address and ideology 209(103)
14 Hollywood and independent black cinema
211(18)
TOMMY L. LOTT
15 No fixed address: the women's picture from Outrage to Blue Steel
229(18)
PAM COOK
16 New Hollywood's new women: murder in mind -- Sarah and Margie
247(16)
HILARY RADNER
17 Censorship and narrative indeterminacy in Basic Instinct: `You won't learn anything from me I don't want you to know'
263(17)
STEVEN COHAN
18 Rich and strange: the yuppie horror film
280(14)
BARRY KEITH GRANT
19 Would you take your child to see this film? The cultural and social work of the family-adventure movie
294(18)
PETER KRAMER
Select bibliography 312(7)
Index 319

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