Hollywood and China in the Post-postclassical Era

ISBN-13: 9781032506029 / Twarda / 2024 / 272 str.

Lara Herring

Opis

This book examines the contemporary relationship between Hollywood and China as case studies that help to define a new era in Hollywood film industry, style, and economics, which is termed the “post-postclassical” period.

 

Spis treści

1. Introduction
2. Global Hollywood in the Post-postclassical Era: soft power, culture, and global relations
3. Becoming Legendary: selling the Thomas Tull mythology
4. Legendary Goes East: “China-focus” and “China-strategy” in post-postclassical Hollywood
5. Welcome to Chinawood? Navigating the co-production process in The Great Wall
6. Post-postclassical Hollywood and the “Global Audience”: the marketing, reception, and lessons of The Great Wall (2016)
7. China and Hollywood Redux: Wanda’s acquisition of Legendary and the fall back of Hollywood-China relations
8. Conclusion

O autorze

Lara Herring is a lecturer in the School of Arts and Media at the University of Salford, in the UK. Coming from a film production background, Lara’s research is largely centred around film industry analysis, framed by cinematic geopolitics and the role of cinema in communicating national identity.