Twenty-First-Century Hollywood: Rebooting the System

Neil Archer

Published by Columbia University Press 2019

Twenty-First-Century Hollywood

Rebooting the System

Neil Archer

In the series Short Cuts

https://doi.org/10.7312/arch19159

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About this book

Twenty-First-Century Hollywood looks into the contexts of studio film production in the new century. In an era dominated in box-office terms by the franchise and the family film, this book combines close textual readings and industrial analysis, illustrating why these kinds of movies are favored by producers and audiences alike.

Author / Editor information

Archer Neil :

Neil Archer is a lecturer and Program Director in film at Keele University, and is the author of Studying The Bourne Ultimatum (Auteur, 2012) The French Road Movie (Berghahn, 2012), The Road Movie (Wallflower 2016), among others.Neil Archer is a lecturer in film at Keele University. He is the author of The Road Movie: In Search of Meaning (Wallflower, 2016), Hot Fuzz (Auteur, 2015), and The Bourne Ultimatum (Auteur, 2012).

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Surveying the industrial landscape and the dominant formal-aesthetic issues at stake, Twenty-First-Century Hollywood offers an insightful and engaging synthesis of many of the most important approaches to contemporary Hollywood. Archer's close readings and case studies persuasively demonstrate how forces such as marketing, synergy, and franchising have shaped many recent Hollywood films.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
INTRODUCTION: REBOOTED? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. WHY CAN’T HOLLYWOOD RELY ON FLYING SAUCERS? INDUSTRY, AUDIENCE AND FRANCHISE LOGIC Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
2. WHAT DOES HOLLYWOOD REALLY LIKE ABOUT COMIC BOOKS? STRUCTURE AND STYLE IN MARVEL’S CINEMATIC UNIVERSE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
3. IS HOLLYWOOD SAVING THE WORLD, OR IS THE WORLD SAVING HOLLYWOOD? INDUSTRIAL AUTHORSHIP AND EXPERIMENTAL BLOCKBUSTERS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
4. WHY ARE THE MOST GROWN-UP FILMS MADE FOR CHILDREN? WAYS OF PLAYING IN THE FAMILY FILM Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	82
FILMOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	106
BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	108
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Illustrations
- Other: 16 b&w illustrations

eBook

Published: June 17, 2019
ISBN: 9780231549455