Hollywood Cinema / Edition 2

Hollywood Cinema / Edition 2

by Richard Maltby
ISBN-10:
0631216154
ISBN-13:
9780631216155
Pub. Date:
03/21/2003
Publisher:
Wiley
ISBN-10:
0631216154
ISBN-13:
9780631216155
Pub. Date:
03/21/2003
Publisher:
Wiley
Hollywood Cinema / Edition 2

Hollywood Cinema / Edition 2

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780631216155
Publisher: Wiley
Publication date: 03/21/2003
Edition description: REV
Pages: 720
Product dimensions: 6.85(w) x 9.75(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Richard Maltby is Professor of Screen Studies and Head of the School of Humanities at Flinders University. At the University of Exeter he established the Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture. He is the author of Harmless Entertainment: Hollywood and the Ideology of Consensus (1983), and editor of Identifying Hollywood's Audiences: Cultural Identity and the Movies (with Melvyn Stokes, 1999) and Hollywood Spectatorship: Changing Perceptions of Cinema Audiences (2001).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xii

List of Boxes xiv

Introduction 1

Part I The Commercial Aesthetic

1 Taking Hollywood Seriously 5

“Metropolis of Make-Believe” 5

Art and Business 7

The Commercial Aesthetic of Titanic 10

A Classical Cinema? 14

Hollywood and its Audiences 19

Ratings and Franchises 22

Hollywood’s World 28

Summary 30

Further Reading 31

2 Entertainment 1 33

Escape 33

Money on the Screen 40

The Multiple Logics of Hollywood Cinema 46

Summary 52

Further Reading 53

3 Entertainment 2 54

The Play of Emotions 54

Regulated Difference 59

Singin’ in the Rain: How to Take Gene Kelly Seriously 66

Summary 71

Further Reading 72

4 Genre 74

Genre Criticism 83

Genre Recognition 86

The Empire of Genres: Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid 93

Genre and Gender 101

Summary 107

Further Reading 108

Part II Histories

5 Industry 1: To 1948 113

Industry 113

Distribution and Exhibition 114

Exporting America 126

Divorcement 128

The Studio System 130

The Star System 141

How Stars are Made: A Star is Born 146

Summary 154

Further Reading 156

6 Industry 2: From 1948 to 1980 159

The Effects of Divorcement 161

Roadshows and Teenpix 165

Independents, Agents, and Television 170

Corporate Consolidation and the “New Hollywood” 173

Ratings 177

Hollywood in the Multiplex 181

Summary 186

Further Reading 187

7 Industry 3: Since 1980 189

Video and New Markets 191

The Pursuit of Synergy 205

Globalization 212

Independence 217

Summary 224

Further Reading 225

8 Technology 227

Realism and the Myth of Total Cinema 229

Sound 238

Sunny Side Up 241

Color 248

Widescreen 251

Technology and Power 255

The Triumph of the Digital 259

Summary 264

Further Reading 265

9 Politics 268

The Politics of Regulation 270

Hollywood Goes to Washington 276

Washington Goes to Hollywood 280

Representing the Political Machine 287

Controversy with Class: The Social Problem Movie 292

Ideology 300

Summary 306

Further Reading 307

Part III Conventions

10 Space 1 311

The Best View 312

Making the Picture Speak: Representation and Expression 313

The Optics of Expressive Space 319

Deep Space: Three-Dimensionality on a Flat Screen 326

Mise-en-Scène 328

Editing 332

Summary 339

Further Reading 340

11 Space 2 343

The Three “Looks” of Cinema 343

Points of View 346

Safe and Unsafe Space 353

Ordinary People 358

Summary 365

Further Reading 365

12 Performance 1 368

The Spectacle of Movement 372

The Movement of Narrative 375

Acting as Impersonation 377

The Actor’s Two Bodies 380

Star Performance 384

Summary 390

Further Reading 391

13 Performance 2 393

The Method 393

Acting as a Signifying System 398

Valentino 401

The Son of the Sheik 406

Summary 410

Further Reading 411

14 Time 413

Time Out 414

Film Time 419

Movie Time 423

Deadlines and Coincidences: Madigan 426

Mise-en-Temps 429

Tense 432

Back to the Present: History as a Production Value 436

The Politics of History: Forrest Gump 440

The Lessons of History: Juárez 443

Summary 449

Further Reading 450

15 Narrative 1 452

Narrative and Other Pleasures 452

Show and Tell 454

Theories of Narration 458

Plot, Story, Narration 462

Clarity: Transparency and Motivation 465

Summary 469

Further Reading 470

16 Narrative 2 471

Regulating Meaning: The Production Code 471

Clarity and Ambiguity in Casablanca 475

Narrative Pressure 484

Summary 488

Further Reading 489

Part IV Approaches

17 Criticism 493

From Reviewing to Criticism 494

Early Theory and Criticism in America 496

From Criticism to Theory 501

Criticism in Practice: Only Angels Have Wings 511

Summary 521

Further Reading 523

18 Theories 526

Entering the Academy 526

Structuralism and Semiology 528

Cinema, Ideology, Apparatus 531

Psychoanalysis and Cinema 535

The Spectator 537

Feminist Theory 540

Poststructuralism and Cultural Studies 542

Neoformalism and Cognitivism 546

From Reception to History 549

Summary 553

Further Reading 555

Chronology 557

Glossary 578

Appendices 593

1 The Motion Picture Production Code 593

2 The Code and Rating System, 1968 598

3 The Classification and Rating System: “What the Ratings Mean” 601

Notes 603

Bibliography 644

Index 666

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