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Readership: Undergraduate students studying film, media studies, cultural studies and literary criticicism. An excellent text for courses in Hollywood cinema, a popular 2/3 year course option.
Edited by John Hill, Senior Lecturer, Department of Media and Performance Studies, University of Ulster at Coleraine, and Pamela Church Gibson, Senior Lecturer in Contextual and Cultural Studies, London Institute
AMERICAN CINEMA: HISTORY, INDUSTRY, AND INTERPRETATION 1: John Belton: American Cinema and Film History 2: Duncan Petrie: History and Cinema Technology 3: Douglas Gomery: Hollywood as Industry 4: Tom Gunning: Early American Film 5: E. Ann Kaplan: Classical Hollywood Film and Melodrama Readings: Richard Maltby: Casablanca Rick Altman: Casablanca 6: Peter Kramer: Post-classical Hollywood CRITICAL CONCEPTS 7: Stephen Crofts: Authorship and Hollywood Peter Wollen: Reading: `John Ford' 8: Tom Ryall: Genre and Hollywood Linda Williams: Reading: `Body Genres' 9: Jeremy G. Butler: The Star System and Hollywood POLITICS AND SOCIETY 10: Douglas Kellner: Hollywood Film and Society Robert B. Ray: Reading: `Hollywood and Ideology' 11: Albert Moran: Film Policy: Hollywood and Beyond 12: Toby Miller: Hollywood and the World
