Contemporary Hollywood Cinema,9780415170109

Contemporary Hollywood Cinema

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ISBN13: 9780415170109
ISBN10: 0415170109
Format: Nonspecific Binding
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
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Hollywood historiographyp. 1
Theses on the philosophy of Hollywood historyp. 3
'Nobody knows everything': post-classical historiographies and consolidated entertainmentp. 21
Economics, industry and institutionsp. 45
Hollywood corporate business practice and periodizing contemporary film historyp. 47
'A major presence in all of the world's important markets': the globalization of Hollywood in the 1990sp. 58
The formation of the 'major independent': Miramax, New Line and the New Hollywoodp. 74
To the rear of the back end: the economics of independent cinemap. 91
Aesthetics and technologyp. 107
From Bwana Devil to Batman Forever: technology in contemporary Hollywood cinemap. 109
Widescreen composition in the age of televisionp. 130
The classical film score forever? Batman, Batman Returns and post-classical film musicp. 142
A cry in the dark: the role of post-classical film soundp. 156
A close encounter with Raiders of the Lost Ark: notes on narrative aspects of the New Hollywood blockbusterp. 166
Storytelling: classical Hollywood cinema and classical narrativep. 178
Specularity and engulfment: Francis Ford Coppola and Bram Stoker's Draculap. 191
Audience, address and ideologyp. 209
Hollywood and independent black cinemap. 211
No fixed address: the women's picture from Outrage to Blue Steelp. 229
New Hollywood's new women: murder in mind - Sarah and Margiep. 247
Censorship and narrative indeterminacy in Basic Instinct: 'You won't learn anything from me I don't want you to know'p. 263
Rich and strange: the yuppie horror filmp. 280
Would you take your child to see this film? The cultural and social work of the family-adventure moviep. 294
Select bibliographyp. 312
Indexp. 319
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