Contemporary Hollywood Cinema

STEVE NEALE, Murray Smith

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Routledge
09 July 1998

Films, movies & cinema; Media studies; Cinema industry

"Contemporary Hollywood Cinema provides a wide-ranging introduction to the film industry today. The contributors examine the idea of the 'new' Hollywood, and ask what links and differentiates contemporary cinema from its 'Classical' predecessor. They consider the economics and institutions, aesthetics and technology, and audiences and ideologies of contemporary cinema, and look at emerging trends and genres such as new Black cinema, female action heroines, the 'yuppie horror' film, and the family adventure movie. The authors

discuss new and defining features of contemporary Hollywood: the growth of agressive business strategies such as the independent marketing of stars; made-for-tv movies and the saturation release of blockbusters; the globalisation of the market for Hollywood product; the rise of the ""major independent"" production/distribution companies, and the recent success of independent films such as Pulp Fiction and The Brothers McMullen. Tino Balio, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, Warren Buckland, John Moores University, UK, Steven Cohen Syracuse University, USA, Pam Cook University of East Anglia, U"

Edited by: STEVE NEALE, Murray Smith
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 793g
ISBN: 9780415170093
ISBN 10: 0415170095
Pages: 360
Publication Date: 09 July 1998
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

STEVE NEALE, Murray Smith

Reviews for Contemporary Hollywood Cinema

Nineteen leading film theorists dissect the so-called New Hollywood in terms of technology, idealogy and aesthetics. Their subjects range from the yuppie nightmare movie ('After Hours', 'Something Wild', 'Fatal Attraction') to the role of music in modern Hollywood, from the riches of independent black cinema to widescreen composition in the age of television. It's heavy going at times - we are, after all, in the rarefied world of film theory - but anyone interested in the development of American film since the early 1970s should derive ample reward from this book. (Kirkus UK)