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Hollywood Cinema: An Introduction - Softcover

Maltby, Richard

 
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Synopsis

Considering the Hollywood cinema as both commercial and aesthetic practice, Hollywood Cinema offers comprehensive coverage of the world′s most powerful film industry, and some of its most popular and profitable movies. Examining films as diverse as Rudolph Valentino′s The Son of the Sheik and Arnold Schwarzenegger′s Total Recall this original study combines a wealth of information on the operation of Hollywood, with a polemical account of those criticisms and theories through which movie scholars have sought to understand its labyrithine operations. This is the broadest ranging account of Hollywood Cinema available, covering its subject from historical, social, cultural, economic and theoretical angles alike, synthesizing theory and research. Accessible, explanatory and fully illustrated with film stills and line drawings.

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About the Author

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.

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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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