Hollywood Cinema, 2nd Edition - Softcover

Maltby, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0631216154 ISBN 13: 9780631216155

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2003

Synopsis

This extensively revised second edition offers a comprehensive introduction to Hollywood cinema, providing a fascinating account of the cultural and aesthetic significance of the world’s most powerful film industry.

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• Provides a fascinating account of Hollywood history.
  
• Examines the cultural and aesthetic significance of the world's most powerful film industry.
  
• Explores and interprets Hollywood cinema in history and in the present, in theory and in practice.
  
• Extensively revised and updated with new chapter features including box sections, further reading lists, Notes and Queries, and chapter summaries.

About this title

About the Author

Richard Maltby is Professor of Screen Studies and Head of the School of Humanities at Flinders University. At the University of Exeter he established the Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture. He is the author of Harmless Entertainment: Hollywood and the Ideology of Consensus (1983), and editor of Identifying Hollywood's Audiences: Cultural Identity and the Movies (with Melvyn Stokes, 1999) and Hollywood Spectatorship: Changing Perceptions of Cinema Audiences (2001).

From the Back Cover

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.

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0631216154
• ISBN 13: 9780631216155
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 718