Hollywood Cinema [Paperback]

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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.

Acknowledgments.

List of Figures.

List of Box Sections.

Introduction: Taking Hollywood Seriously.

1. ’Metropolis of Make-Believe’:.

Art and Business.

The Commercial Aesthetics of Titanic.

A Classical Cinema?.

Hollywood and Its Audiences.

Ratings and Franchises.

Hollywood’s World.

Summary.

Notes for Further Reading.

2. Entertainment 1:.

Escape.

Money on the Screen.

The Multiple Logics of Hollywood Cinema.

Summary.

Notes for Further Reading.

3. Entertainment 2:.

The Play of Emotions.

Regulated Difference.

Singin’ in the Rain: How to Take Gene Kelly Seriously.

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