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Maltby, Richard

 
9780631157328: Hollywood Cinema: An Introduction
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0631157328 ISBN 13: 9780631157328
Verlag: Blackwell Publishers, 1995

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This comprehensive introduction to Hollywood cinema provides students with a fascinating account of the world's most powerful film industry and its cultural and aesthetic significance. Taking a broad-ranging approach, it explores and interprets Hollywood cinema, in history and in the present, in theory and in practice. Examining films as diverse as Rudolph Valentino's The Son of the Sheik and Arnold Schwarzenegger's Total Recall, this indispensable text provides: an account of the production of movies under the studio system and after, up to the present. an explanation of how the film industry works, including distribution and exhibition. an exploration of Hollywood's place in American culture and in international mass culture. an analysis of the formal properties of Hollywood movies (including space, time, performance and narrative). a chronology of Hollywood cinema.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Richard Maltby is the author of Harmless Entertainment: Hollywood and the Ideology of Consensus, and Dreams for Sale: Popular Culture in the Twentieth Century. He is Senior Lecturer in American Film at the University of Exeter.

Ian Craven is an Executive Member of the John Logie Baird Centre and teaches Film and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow.

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This comprehensive introduction to Hollywood cinema provides students with a fascinating account of the world's most powerful film industry and its cultural and aesthetic significance. Taking a broad-ranging approach, it explores and interprets Hollywood cinema, in history and in the present, in theory and in practice.

Examining films as diverse as Rudolph Valentino's The Son of the Sheik and Arnold Schwarzenegger's Total Recall, this indispensable text provides:



  • an account of the production of movies under the studio system and after, up to the present.

  • an explanation of how the film industry works, including distribution and exhibition.

  • an exploration of Hollywood's place in American culture and in international mass culture.

  • an analysis of the formal properties of Hollywood movies (including space, time, performance and narrative).

  • a chronology of Hollywood cinema.

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Verlag
Blackwell Publishers
Erscheinungsdatum
1995
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0631157328
ISBN 13 
9780631157328
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
544
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