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Hollywood Cinema
Richard Maltby
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Description for Hollywood Cinema
Paperback. This comprehensive introduction to Hollywood cinema provides an account of the world's most powerful film industry and examines its cultural and aesthetic significance. Num Pages: 712 pages, 43. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; APF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 247 x 172 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1208.
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.
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
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
720
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United States
ISBN
9780631216155
SKU
V9780631216155
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About Richard Maltby
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Hollywood Cinema
"Hollywood Cinema is an important book, one to be included in any consideration of American film and its influence in world cinema." Journal of Film and Video “This updated and enhanced edition of Richard Maltby's Hollywood Cinema is quite simply the best single textbook on the subject. In clear, user-friendly fashion, Maltby provides an astonishing amount of basic information ... Read more