The Classical Hollywood Reader - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Classical Hollywood Reader write by Steve Neale. This book was released on 2012-11-12. The Classical Hollywood Reader available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Classical Hollywood Reader brings together essential readings to provide a history of Hollywood from the 1910s to the mid 1960s. Following on from a Prologue that discusses the aesthetic characteristics of Classical Hollywood films, Part 1 covers the period between the 1910s and the mid-to-late 1920s. It deals with the advent of feature-length films in the US and the growing national and international dominance of the companies responsible for their production, distribution and exhibition. In doing so, it also deals with film making practices, aspects of style, the changing roles played by women in an increasingly business-oriented environment, and the different audiences in the US for which Hollywood sought to cater. Part 2 covers the period between the coming of sound in the mid 1920s and the beginnings of the demise of the `studio system` in late 1940s. In doing so it deals with the impact of sound on films and film production in the US and Europe, the subsequent impact of the Depression and World War II on the industry and its audiences, the growth of unions, and the roles played by production managers and film stars at the height of the studio era. Part 3 deals with aspects of style, censorship, technology, and film production. It includes articles on the Production Code, music and sound, cinematography, and the often neglected topic of animation. Part 4 covers the period between 1946 and 1966. It deals with the demise of the studio system and the advent of independent production. In an era of demographic and social change, it looks at the growth of drive-in theatres, the impact of television, the advent of new technologies, the increasing importance of international markets, the Hollywood blacklist, the rise in art house imports and in overseas production, and the eventual demise of the Production Code. Designed especially for courses on Hollywood Cinema, the Reader includes a number of newly researched and written chapters and a series of introductions to each of its parts. It concludes with an epilogue, a list of resources for further research, and an extensive bibliography.
Classical Hollywood Comedy
Classical Hollywood Comedy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Classical Hollywood Comedy write by Kristine Brunovska Karnick. This book was released on 2013-02-01. Classical Hollywood Comedy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Applies the recent `return to history' in film studies to the genre of classical Hollywood comedy as well as broadening the definition of those works considered central in this field.
Classical Hollywood Narrative
Classical Hollywood Narrative - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Classical Hollywood Narrative write by Jane Gaines. This book was released on 1992. Classical Hollywood Narrative available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An overview of film studies
The Hollywood Film Music Reader
The Hollywood Film Music Reader - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Hollywood Film Music Reader write by Mervyn Cooke. This book was released on 2010-11-04. The Hollywood Film Music Reader available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This wide-ranging, stimulating, and entertaining anthology of writings about the experiences of composers working in the high-pressure environment of the US film industry from the silent era to the present day includes both vivid first-hand accounts from the composers themselves and a representative selection of contemporaneous criticism and commentary.
Post-Classical Hollywood
Post-Classical Hollywood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Post-Classical Hollywood write by Barry Langford. This book was released on 2010-08-31. Post-Classical Hollywood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At the end of World War II, Hollywood basked in unprecedented prosperity. Since then, numerous challenges and crises have changed the American film industry in ways beyond imagination in 1945. Nonetheless, at the start of a new century Hollywood's worldwide dominance is intact - indeed, in today's global economy the products of the American entertainment industry (of which movies are now only one part) are more ubiquitous than ever. How does today's "e;Hollywood"e; - absorbed into transnational media conglomerates like NewsCorp., Sony, and Viacom - differ from the legendary studios of Hollywood's Golden Age? What are the dominant frameworks and conventions, the historical contexts and the governing attitudes through which films are made, marketed and consumed today? How have these changed across the last seven decades? And how have these evolving contexts helped shape the form, the style and the content of Hollywood movies, from Singin' in the Rain to Pirates of the Caribbean? Barry Langford explains and interrogates the concept of "e;post-classical"e; Hollywood cinema - its coherence, its historical justification and how it can help or hinder our understanding of Hollywood from the forties to the present. Integrating film history, discussion of movies' social and political dimensions, and analysis of Hollywood's distinctive methods of storytelling, Post-Classical Hollywood charts key critical debates alongside the histories they interpret, while offering its own account of the "e;post-classical."e; Wide-ranging yet concise, challenging and insightful, Post-Classical Hollywood offers a new perspective on the most enduringly fascinating artform of our age.
