Hollywood: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies, Volume 1Thomas Schatz Taylor & Francis, 2004 - 393 pages 'Hollywood' as a concept applies variously to a particular film style, a factory-based mode of film production, a cartel of powerful media institutions and a national (and increasingly global) 'way of seeing'. It is a complex social, cultural and industrial phenomenon and is arguably the single most important site of cultural production over the past century.This collection brings together journal articles, published essays, book chapters and excerpts which explore Hollywood as a social, economic, industrial, aesthetic and political force, and as a complex historical entity. |
Contents
General introduction | 1 |
PART | 6 |
the concept of high concept 367 | 16 |
Early American cinema and the emergence of Hollywood | 23 |
PART 7 | 27 |
PART 14 | 39 |
Making movies | 42 |
the founding of United Artists | 79 |
from The Miracle to Deep Throat | 215 |
Television and Hollywood in the 1940s | 227 |
Alfred Hitchcock | 249 |
Hollywood and the television | 255 |
balance of power | 265 |
Introduction to A Cinema of Loneliness | 270 |
The New Hollywood | 285 |
Movie audiences 343 | 291 |
William Fox presents Sunrise | 93 |
193049 | 107 |
Notes on Columbia pictures corporation 19261941 | 129 |
Index 385 | 141 |
The B film and the problem of cultural distinction | 147 |
origins of the exploitation film | 161 |
Racial ethnic and cultural identity | 163 |
Hollywoods semiindependent production | 181 |
PART 3 | 195 |
Hollywood filmmaking | 298 |
Hitchcock and humor | 314 |
Hitchcock feminism and the patriarchal unconscious | 329 |
breaking the broadcast bottleneck | 333 |
reflections on the audience in film | 345 |
the modern American motion picture theater | 353 |
Warner Bros and Vitaphone | 366 |
home theater and the domestic film | 391 |
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