Contemporary Hollywood Cinema - 9780415170093

Taylor & Francis

A comprehensive overview of the film industry in Hollywood today, Contemporary Hollywood Cinema brings together leading international cinema scholars to explore the technology, institutions, film makers and movies of contemporary American film making.\n > List if illustrations and permissions, Notes on contributors, Acknowledgements, Introduction, PART I. Hollywood historiography, 1. Theses on the philosophy of Hollywood history, 2. 'Nobody knows everything': post-classical historiographies and consolidated entertainment, PART II. Economics, industry and institutions, 3. Hollywood corporate business practice and periodizing contemporary film history, 4. 'A major presence in all of the world's important markets': the globalization of Hollywood in the 1990s, 5. The formation of the 'major independent': Miramax, New Line and the New Hollywood, 6. To the rear of the back end: the economics of independent cinema, PART III. Aesthetics and technology, 7. From Bwana Devil to Batman Foreven