Hollywood Cinema

This comprehensive introduction to Hollywood cinema provides a fascinating account of the world's most powerful film industry and examines its cultural and aesthetic significance. Taking a wide-ranging approach, and spotlighting such films as A Star is Born, Singing in the Rain, Forrest Gump, and Titanic, it explores and interprets Hollywood cinema in history and in the present, in theory and in practice. For this new edition, the book has been extensively revised, with the historical material updated, and including references to Hollywood movies after 1990. New features include box sections, further reading lists, and chapter summaries. Well illustrated and clearly written, this is an indispensable text for students and readers of Hollywood history and culture.

ISBN 0631216154   Pages 712 ISBN13 9780631216155 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd   Weight (grammes) 1508 Imprint Blackwell Publishers   Published in Oxford Format Paperback   Previous ISBN 9780631157328 Publication date 28 Feb 2003   Height (mm) 248 Library of Congress PN1993.5   Width (mm) 171 DEWEY 791.430973   Spine width (mm) 38 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Undergraduate, Professional / Scholarly, Postgraduate

		Acknowledgments
		List of Boxes
		Introduction		1
Pt. I		The Commercial Aesthetic
1		Taking Hollywood Seriously		5
2		Entertainment 1		33
3		Entertainment 2		54
4		Genre		74
Pt. II		Histories
5		Industry 1: To 1948		113
6		Industry 2: From 1948 to 1980		159
7		Industry 3: Since 1980		189
8		Technology		227
9		Politics		268
Pt. II		Conventions
10		Space 1		311
11		Space 2		343
12		Performance 1		368
13		Performance 2		393
14		Time		413
15		Narrative 1		452
16		Narrative 2		471
Pt. IV		Approaches
17		Criticism		493
18		Theories		526
		Chronology		557
		Glossary		578
App. 1		The Motion Picture Production Code		593
App. 2		The Code and Rating System, 1968		598
App. 3		The Classification and Rating System: "What the Ratings Mean"		601
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"Hollywood Cinema is an important book, one to be included in any consideration of American film and its influence in world cinema." Journal of Film and Video "This updated and enhanced edition of Richard Maltby's Hollywood Cinema is quite simply the best single textbook on the subject. In clear, user-friendly fashion, Maltby provides an astonishing amount of basic information about Hollywood while explaining how both the movies and the critical/theoretical discourse of film study have evolved over time. The book is not only an extremely useful overview but also an important intervention in current debates. An intelligent blending of formal and historical analysis, it should become essential reading for every serious student of film, whether beginner or advanced." James Naremore, Indiana University "In its first edition, Hollywood Cinema quickly became a 'must-have' volume for anyone interested in film. Beautifully reorganized, expanded, and updated with features that enhance its usefulness for research and teaching, this revised edition shows how truly indispensable Maltby's work on Hollywood is to media studies." Barbara Klinger, Indiana University

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