| Description | | - Perfectly tailored for courses in Hollywood and American Cinema
- Top international contributors
- Engages with contemporary debates in the field
- Learning aids include chapter summaries and further reading
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'The contributors supply skilful overviews of the major critical approaches' Sight and Sound
May 1998
Top international contributors
Emphasis throughout on critical concepts, methods and debates
Learning aids include chapter summaries, critiques of individual films and further reading
This text is perfectly tailored to meet the needs of students taking a course in Hollywood
cinema as part of a degree in film, media studies, or cultural studies.
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Readership: Undergraduate students studying film, media studies, cultural studies and literary criticism. An excellent text for courses in Hollywood cinema, a popular 2/3 year course option.
| Contents |
AMERICAN CINEMA: HISTORY, INDUSTRY, AND INTERPRETATION
1.
American Cinema and Film History
,
John Belton
2.
History and Cinema Technology
,
Duncan Petrie
3.
Hollywood as Industry
,
Douglas Gomery
4.
Early American Film
,
Tom Gunning
5.
Classical Hollywood Film and Melodrama
,
E. Ann Kaplan
Readings:
Casablanca
,
Richard Maltby
Casablanca
,
Rick Altman
6.
Post-classical Hollywood
,
Peter Kramer
CRITICAL CONCEPTS
7.
Authorship and Hollywood
,
Stephen Crofts
Reading: `John Ford'
,
Peter Wollen
8.
Genre and Hollywood
,
Tom Ryall
Reading: `Body Genres'
,
Linda Williams
9.
The Star System and Hollywood
,
Jeremy G. Butler
POLITICS AND SOCIETY
10.
Hollywood Film and Society
,
Douglas Kellner
Reading: `Hollywood and Ideology'
,
Robert B. Ray
11.
Film Policy: Hollywood and Beyond
,
Albert Moran
12.
Hollywood and the World
,
Toby Miller
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Edited by John Hill, Senior Lecturer, Department of Media and Performance Studies, University of Ulster at Coleraine,
Pamela Church Gibson, Senior Lecturer in Contextual and Cultural Studies, London Institute,
Consultant Editors: Richard Dyer, Department of Film Studies, University of Warwick,
E. Ann Kaplan, Department of English, State University of New York at Stony Brook, and
Paul Willemen, Napier University, Edinburgh
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