This work is a selection of previously published work from a wide range of scholars on mainstream US film from the post-World War II period onwards.
Author: Toby Miller
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ISBN: 0415452260
Category: Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
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This work is a selection of previously published work from a wide range of scholars on mainstream US film from the post-World War II period onwards.Olson, Scott R. [2000] (2009), 'The Globalisation of Hollywood', in T. Miller (ed), The Contemporary Hollywood Reader, Abingdon and New York: Routledge, pp. 526—35. Originally appeared in International Journal on World Peace 17.4, pp.
Author: Lisa Purse
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 9780748688401
Category: Performing Arts
Page: 232
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This book is an authoritative account of post-1990s US action cinema.Shaheen, Jack G.Guilty: Hollywood's Verdict on Arabsafter 9/11. ... Reader. NewYork: Routledge,2006. Slotkin, Richard. Regeneration throughViolence: TheMythology of the American Frontier 1600–1860. ... ContemporaryHollywood Cinema.
Author: Susanne Kord
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9781137016218
Category: Social Science
Page: 280
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Kord and Krimmer investigate the most common male types - cops, killers, fathers, cowboys, superheroes, spies, soldiers, rogues, lovers, and losers - by tracing changing concepts of masculinity in popular Hollywood blockbusters from 1992 to 2008 - the Clinton and Bush eras - against a backdrop of contemporary political events, social developments, and popular American myths. Their in-depth analysis of over sixty films, from The Matrix and Iron Man to Pirates of the Caribbean and The Lord of the Rings, shows that movies, far from being mere entertainment, respond directly to today's social and political realities, from consumerism to "family values" to the War on Terror.War Movies: The Complete Viewer's Guide. New York: Facts on File, 1987. Gates, Philippa. “'Fighting the Good Fight': The Real and the Moral in the Contemporary Hollywood Combat Film.” Quarterly Review of Film Studies 22: 4 ...
Author: Barry Keith Grant
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292745742
Category: Performing Arts
Page: 784
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From reviews of the third edition: "Film Genre Reader III lives up to the high expectations set by its predecessors, providing an accessible and relatively comprehensive look at genre studies. The anthology's consideration of the advantages and challenges of genre studies, as well as its inclusion of various film genres and methodological approaches, presents a pedagogically useful overview." —Scope Since 1986, Film Genre Reader has been the standard reference and classroom text for the study of genre in film, with more than 25,000 copies sold. Barry Keith Grant has again revised and updated the book to reflect the most recent developments in genre study. This fourth edition adds new essays on genre definition and cycles, action movies, science fiction, and heritage films, along with a comprehensive and updated bibliography. The volume includes more than thirty essays by some of film's most distinguished critics and scholars of popular cinema, including Charles Ramírez Berg, John G. Cawelti, Celestino Deleyto, David Desser, Thomas Elsaesser, Steve Neale, Thomas Schatz, Paul Schrader, Vivian Sobchack, Janet Staiger, Linda Williams, and Robin Wood.ISBN13: 9–78–0–415–227391 (hbk) ISBN13: 9–78–0–415–227407 (pbk) Available at all good bookshops For ordering and further information please visit: http://www.routledge.com The Contemporary Hollywood Reader Edited by Toby Miller “Toby ...
Author: Douglas Gomery
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781136835247
Category: Performing Arts
Page: 480
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Covering everything from Edison to Avatar, Gomery and Pafort-Overduin have written the clearest, best organized, and most user-friendly film history textbook on the market. It masterfully distills the major trends and movements of film history, so that the subject can be taught in one semester. And each chapter includes a compelling case study that highlights an important moment in movie history and, at the same time, subtly introduces a methodological approach. This book is a pleasure to read and to teach. Peter Decherney, University of Pennsylvania, USA In addition to providing a comprehensive overview of the development of film around the world, the book gives us examples of how to do film history, including organizing the details and discussing their implications.Hugh McCarney, Western Connecticut State University, USA Douglas Gomery and Clara Pafort-Overduin have created an outstanding textbook with an impressive breadth of content, covering over 100 years in the evolution of cinema. Movie History: A Survey is an engaging book that will reward readers with a contemporary perspective of the history of motion pictures and provide a solid foundation for the study of film. Matthew Hanson, Eastern Michigan University, USA How can we understand the history of film? Historical facts don’t answer the basic questions of film history. History, as this fascinating book shows, is more than the simple accumulation of film titles, facts and figures. This is a survey of over 100 years of cinema history, from its beginnings in 1895, to its current state in the twenty-first century. An accessible, introductory text, Movie History: A Survey looks at not only the major films, filmmakers, and cinema institutions throughout the years, but also extends to the production, distribution, exhibition, technology and reception of films. The textbook is divided chronologically into four sections, using the timeline of technological changes: Section One looks at the era of silent movies from 1895 to 1927; Section Two starts with the coming of sound and covers 1928 until 1950; Section Three runs from 1951 to 1975 and deals with the coming and development of television; and Section Four focuses on the coming of home video and the transition to digital, from 1975 to 2010. Key pedagogical features include: timelines in each section help students to situate the films within a broader historical context case study boxes with close-up analysis of specific film histories and a particular emphasis on film reception lavishly illustrated with over 450 color images to put faces to names, and to connect pictures to film titles margin notes add background information and clarity glossary for clear understanding of the key terms described references and further reading at the end of each chapter to enhance further study. A supporting website is available at www.routledge.com/textbooks/moviehistory, with lots of extra materials, useful for the classroom or independent study, including: additional case studies – new, in-depth and unique to the website international case studies – for the Netherlands in Dutch and English timeline - A movie history timeline charting key dates in the history of cinema from 1890 to the present day revision flash cards – ideal for getting to grips with key terms in film studies related resources – on the website you will find every link from the book for ease of use, plus access to additional online material students are also invited to submit their own movie history case studies - see website for details Written by two highly respected film scholars and experienced teachers, Movie History is the ideal textbook for students studying film history.Scott R. Olson, 'The Globalization of Hollywood' in The Contemporary Hollywood Reader, ed. Toby Miller (London and New York: Routledge, 2009), 526, emphasis in original. 3. Much has been written on Hollywood's appropriation of Hong Kong ...
Author: Nick Jones
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781317607144
Category: Social Science
Page: 178
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This book applies the discourse of the so-called ‘spatial turn’ to popular contemporary cinema, in particular the action sequences of twenty-first century Hollywood productions. Tackling a variety of spatial imaginations (contemporary iconic architecture; globalisation and non-places; phenomenological knowledge of place; consumerist spaces of commodity purchase; cyberspace), the diverse case studies not only detail the range of ways in which action sequences represent the challenge of surviving and acting in contemporary space, but also reveal the consistent qualities of spatial appropriation and spatial manipulation that define the form. Jones argues that action sequences dramatise the restrictions and possibilities of space, offering examples of radical spatial praxis through their depictions of spatial engagement, struggle and eventual transcendence.Cinema and chapter in Screening the Male: Exploring Masculinities in Hollywood Cinema (both 1993), my own and Cynthia Fuchs's essays in that same volume, Susan Jeffords's Hard Bodies: Hollywood Masculinity in the Reagan Era (1994) and ...
Author: Chris Holmlund
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231169806
Category: Performing Arts
Page: 306
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Sylvester Stallone has been a defining part of American film for nearly four decades. He has made an impact on world entertainment in a surprisingly diverse range of capacities – as actor, writer, producer, and director – all while maintaining a monolithic presence. With The Ultimate Stallone Reader, this icon finally receives concerted academic attention. Eleven original essays by internationally-known scholars examine Stallone’s contributions to mainstream cinema, independent film, and television. This volume also offers innovative approaches to star, gender, and celebrity studies, performance analysis, genre criticism, industry and reception inquiry, and the question of what it means to be an auteur. Ultimately, The Ultimate Stallone Reader investigates the place that Sylvester Stallone occupies within an industry and a culture that have both undergone much evolution, and how his work has reflected and even driven these changes.Young Film Audiences on Hollywood and Europe (2007).” The Contemporary Hollywood Reader. Ed. Toby Miller. 420-436. Print. Michaels, Walter Benn. “Neoliberal Aesthetics: Fried, Rancière and the Form of the Photograph.” Nonsite.org.
Author: John R. Leo
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 9781443833349
Category: Performing Arts
Page: 380
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This compilation of essays by 20 scholars trained in comparative literatures, art history, critical theory, and American cultural studies further explores and expands the spirited and energetic field of visual cultural studies and its cognate or supplemental projects of “visual practices” and “visual literacy.” Their topics and perspectives engage contemporary re-theorizations of “text,” of “word” and “image,” while their alignments, ruptures, slippages and aporias fall across a range of media practices and institutions. These include photography and exhibition, film, television, entertainment, journalism, poetry and literature as visual and spectacular performances, and graphic narratives, but also their discursive intersections with “race” and ethnicity, their conjugations of gender, their tense and constitutive relations within multiple public spheres and (post)modernities.Hollywood's Coming of Age Rama Venkatasawmy. Fulton, A.R. 'The Machine,' in The American Film Industry, ed. ... 'Economic and Institutional Analysis: Hollywood as Monopoly Capitalism?' (2005), in The Contemporary Hollywood Reader, ed.
Author: Rama Venkatasawmy
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780739176214
Category: Performing Arts
Page: 345
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While many books have addressed visual effects in Hollywood cinema, The Digitization of Cinematic Visual Effects: Hollywood's Coming of Age, by Rama Venkatasawmy, fills an important gap in cinematic analysis and film history by providing a periodization and techno-historical account of visual effects in Hollywood cinema.In The Contemporary Hollywood Reader, edited by Toby Miller, 137– 154. London: Routledge. Shaw, Deborah. 2003. Contemporary Cinema of Latin America: 10 Key Films. London: Continuum. Shaw, Deborah. 2013.
Author: Maria M. Delgado
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9781118552889
Category: Performing Arts
Page: 560
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A Companion to Latin American Cinema offers a wide-ranging collection of newly commissioned essays and interviews that explore the ways in which Latin American cinema has established itself on the international film scene in the twenty-first century. Features contributions from international critics, historians, and scholars, along with interviews with acclaimed Latin American film directors Includes essays on the Latin American film industry, as well as the interactions between TV and documentary production with feature film culture Covers several up-and-coming regions of film activity such as nations in Central America Offers novel insights into Latin American cinema based on new methodologies, such as the quantitative approach, and essays contributed by practitioners as well as theorists