Format:
1 online resource (377 pages)
ISBN:
9780804794749
Series Statement:
Post*45 Ser.
Content:
Refuting the conventional scholarly view that Hollywood studios are basically interchangeable, this history of the contemporary American movie industry argues that we can see the individual studios' fingerprints on even the smallest aspects of their films.
Content:
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Logorrhea, or, How to Watch a Hollywood Movie -- Part I. Last of the Independents: Paranoid Auteurs and the Invention of Neoclassical Hollywood -- Chapter 2. The Literal and the Littoral: Jaws -- Chapter 3. Paramount I: From the Directors Company to High Concept -- Chapter 4. Our Man in Armani: The Ovitz Interregnum -- Part II. The Projections -- Chapter 5. Paramount II: The Residue of Design -- Chapter 6. Let's Make the Weather: Chaos Comes to Hollywood -- Part III. Hollywood the Day after Tomorrow: Neoclassical Endings? -- Chapter 7. That Oceanic Feeling: One Merger Too Many -- Chapter 8. The Anxious Epic and the Qualms of Empire: Conglomerate Overstretch -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.
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Logorrhea, or, How to watch a Hollywood movieLast of the independents : paranoid auteurs and the invention of neoclassical Hollywood -- The literal and the littoral : Jaws -- Paramount I : from the director's company to high concept -- Our man in Armani : the Ovitz interregnum -- The projections : neoclassicism in action -- Paramount II : the residue of design -- Let's make the weather : chaos comes to Hollywood -- Hollywood the day after tomorrow : neoclassical endings? -- That oceanic feeling : one merger too many -- The anxious epic and the qualms of empire : conglomerate overstretch.
Additional Edition:
9780804790772
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe 9780804790772
Language:
English
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