The Contemporary Hollywood Reader

by Miller; Toby

• ISBN13: 9780415452267
• ISBN10: 0415452260
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2009-08-13
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

We are all experts about Hollywood. We have to be, given its iconic power as the global source of so much entertainment. Designed to add to existing expertise as a movie-goer, The Contemporary Hollywood Readerenables students to enter into the thematic, critical, artistic, economic, and political debates on Hollywood. The Contemporary Hollywood Readeris a dynamic selection of scholarly writings on Hollywood from the post-World War II period onwards, divided into three sections, each with contextualizing introductions from the Editor. The sections, Production, Text, and Circulation, address all the major perspectives on Hollywood allowing equal attention to the field, in both thematic and disciplinary senses. In this collection, Toby Miller offers a plural, open guide to major scholarly tendencies in writing about Hollywood with a mixture of familiar and less familiar works. While the Readerdraws on research undertaken within US-UK film or cinema studies, it also ventures further afield, bringing together the most stimulating materials available on the subject.

Table of Contents

Production

Introduction

Structure

Hollywood Genres and the Production of Culture Perspective

Digital Film and 'Late' Capitalism

Economic and Institutional Analysis: Hollywood as Monopoly Capitalism

Vertical Integration in Motion Pictures

Artists

Women and Men in Film: Gender Inequality Among Writers in a Culture Industry

Double Jeopardy in Hollywood: Age and Gender in the Careers of Film Actors, 1926-1999

The Twilight Zone of Contemporary Hollywood Production

The Lady in the Tutti-Frutti Hat: Carmen Miranda, a Spectacle of Ethnicity

Studs Have Feelings, Too: Warren Beatty and the Question of Star Discourse and Gender

The Star and the Commodity: Notes Towards a Performance Theory of Stardom

Globalization

Chinese Diaspora and Orientalism in Globalized Cultural Production: Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Ruth Zanker and Geoff Lealand. New Zealand as Middle Earth: Local and Global Popular Communication in a Small Nation

Hollywood and the World: The Geography of Motion-Picture Distribution and Marketing

Behind the Scenes: How Transnational Firms are Constructing a New International Division of Labor in Media Work.?

Introduction

Genre

Inventing Monument Valley: Nineteenth-Century Landscape Photography and the Western Film

Genre

Paul Kerr. Out of What Past? Notes on the B Film Noir

Pleasure

Pius XII. (1957) Miranda Prorsus: Encyclical Letter on Motion Pictures, Radio and Television

Serious Pleasures: Cinematic Pleasure and the Notion of Fun

Lost in the Funhouse

Throwing Shade in the Kingdom

Representation

A Circus of Dreams and Lies: The Black Film Wave at Middle Age

Women and Smoking in Hollywood Movies: A Content Analysis

A Rose is a Rose? Real Women and a Lost War

Does Hollywood Hate Business or Money?

Citizen Chicano: The Trials and Titillations of Ethnicity in the American Cinema, 1935-1962

Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People.?

Circulation

Introduction

Distribution

Film Distribution as Media: Mapping Difference in the Bolivian Cinemascape

Marketing the Hollywood Blockbuster in France

How Critical are Critical Reviews? The Box Office Effects of Film Critics, Star Power, and Budgets

Audiences

Cowboys and Indians: Perceptions of Western Films Among American Indians and Anglos

It's the Language of Film!: Young Film Audiences on Hollywood and Europe

Cultural Discount and Cross-Culture Predictability: Examining the Box Office Performance of American Movies in Hong Kong

Government

The Celebrity Image and Cultural Identity: Publicity Rights and the Subaltern Politics of Gender

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