The Contemporary Hollywood Film Industry

The Contemporary Hollywood Film Industry

Author: Paul McDonald

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Published: 2008-02-11

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 9781405133883

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The Contemporary Hollywood Film Industry is a collection of essays by leading scholars that examines the state of the U.S. film industry, from the l980s to present day. Includes important discussions of the industry’s labour and star systems, as well as intellectual property and state relations Considers the role of independent producers, the global marketplace for Hollywood product, corporate changes, and various new media windows, including video, DVD to cable, satellite, and online channels of delivery Brings together an international team of leading film scholars Offers a balanced and fresh approach to this important contemporary period in Hollywood


Contemporary Hollywood Cinema

Contemporary Hollywood Cinema

Author: STEVE NEALE

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-04-15

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 1135108765

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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.


American History and Contemporary Hollywood Film

American History and Contemporary Hollywood Film

Author: Trevor McCrisken

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780813536217

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Hollywood has a growing fascination with America's past. This book offers an analysis of how and why contemporary Hollywood films have sought to mediate American history. It considers whether or how far contemporary films have begun to unravel the unifying myths of earlier films and periods.


Hollywood Economics

Hollywood Economics

Author: Arthur S. De Vany

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780415312608

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Movies expected to perform well can flop, whilst independent movies with low budgets can be wildly successful. In this text, De Vany casts his eye over all aspects of the business to present some intriguing conclusions.


Making Films in Contemporary Hollywood

Making Films in Contemporary Hollywood

Author: Alan Lovell

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Published: 2005-02-25

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 9780340809839

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Traditionally, film critics have concentrated on the director, seeing feature filmmaking as a form of individual expression. The authors challenge this view, arguing that filmmaking is a form of collection expression. They examine the idea that many individuals, including editors, cinematographers and sound designers, contribute to the making of a film, and argue that it is misleading to classify them as technicians. The authors consider is how money and power determines the structure within which all those involved with filmmaking work. And, in challenging the accepted view of the dynamics of filmmaking, the book raises questions about the nature of the feature film. Is it essentially a visual form? What place does it have? How important is the script? Making Films in Contemporary Hollywood contains analysis, interviews and case studies of Chinatown, Jurassic Park, and When Harry Met Sally, bringing a fresh perspective to the study of filmmaking that will be both informative and provocative for Media and Film Studies students at all levels.


Postfeminism and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema

Postfeminism and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema

Author: J. Gwynne

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-06-28

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 113730684X

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By analyzing the negotiation of femininities and masculinities within contemporary Hollywood cinema, Postfeminism and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema presents diverse interrogations of popular cinema and illustrates the need for a renewed scholarly focus on contemporary film production.


Contemporary Hollywood Cinema

Contemporary Hollywood Cinema

Author: STEVE NEALE

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-04-15

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 1135108838

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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.


Post-Classical Hollywood

Post-Classical Hollywood

Author: Barry Langford

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2010-08-31

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0748643214

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At the end of World War II, Hollywood basked in unprecedented prosperity. Since then, numerous challenges and crises have changed the American film industry in ways beyond imagination in 1945. Nonetheless, at the start of a new century Hollywood's worldwide dominance is intact - indeed, in today's global economy the products of the American entertainment industry (of which movies are now only one part) are more ubiquitous than ever. How does today's "e;Hollywood"e; - absorbed into transnational media conglomerates like NewsCorp., Sony, and Viacom - differ from the legendary studios of Hollywood's Golden Age? What are the dominant frameworks and conventions, the historical contexts and the governing attitudes through which films are made, marketed and consumed today? How have these changed across the last seven decades? And how have these evolving contexts helped shape the form, the style and the content of Hollywood movies, from Singin' in the Rain to Pirates of the Caribbean? Barry Langford explains and interrogates the concept of "e;post-classical"e; Hollywood cinema - its coherence, its historical justification and how it can help or hinder our understanding of Hollywood from the forties to the present. Integrating film history, discussion of movies' social and political dimensions, and analysis of Hollywood's distinctive methods of storytelling, Post-Classical Hollywood charts key critical debates alongside the histories they interpret, while offering its own account of the "e;post-classical."e; Wide-ranging yet concise, challenging and insightful, Post-Classical Hollywood offers a new perspective on the most enduringly fascinating artform of our age.


Camera Politica

Camera Politica

Author: Michael Ryan

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 1988-06-22

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780253206046

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" a modern mythography, a study of contemporary Hollywood films based on the tools offered by feminism, psychoanalysis, Marxist cultural theory, and deconstruction." --Village Voice "Solidly thought-out observation of the films of the 70's and 80's that comment on the system." --Audience "... intelligent, open advocacy. Its responsible arrangement of carefully described cultural materials will challenge students and instructors alike." --Teaching Philosophy Camera Politica is a comprehensive study of Hollywood film during a period of tremendous change in American history, a period that witnessed the end of the American empire, crises in the economy, a failure of political leadership, loss at war, and the rise of the Right.


Hollywood in the New Millennium

Hollywood in the New Millennium

Author: Tino Balio

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2019-07-25

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 1838716203

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Hollywood is facing unprecedented challenges – and is changing rapidly and radically as a result. In this major new study of the contemporary film industry, leading film historian Tino Balio explores the impact of the Internet, declining DVD sales and changing consumer spending habits on the way Hollywood conducts its business. Today, the major studios play an insignificant role in the bottom lines of their conglomerate parents and have fled to safety, relying on big-budget tentpoles, franchises and family films to reach their target audiences. Comprehensive, compelling and filled with engaging case studies (TimeWarner, DreamWorks SKG, Spider Man, The Lord of the Rings, IMAX, Netflix, Miramax, Sony Pictures Classics, Lionsgate and Sundance), Hollywood in the New Millennium is a must-read for all students of film studies, cinema studies, media studies, communication studies, and radio and television.