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.
- 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.
Preface.
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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