ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|44 pages
Hollywood historiography
chapter 2|24 pages
'Nobody Knows Everything'
Post-classical historiographies and consolidated entertainment
part 2|61 pages
Economics, industry and institutions
chapter 4|16 pages
'A Major Presence in all of the World's Important Markets'
The Globalization of Hollywood in the 1990s
part 3|102 pages
Aesthetics and Technology
chapter 9|14 pages
The classical film score forever?
Batman, Batman Returns and post-classical film music
chapter 11|12 pages
A close encounter with Raiders of the Lost Ark
Notes on narrative aspects of the New Hollywood blockbuster
part 4|103 pages
Audience, address and ideology
chapter 17|17 pages
Censorship and narrative indeterminacy in Basic Instinct
'You won't learn anything from me I don't want you to know'
chapter 19|18 pages
Would you take your child to see this film?
The cultural and social work of the family-adventure movie
