The Persistence of Hollywood

ISBN-13: 9780415968133 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 408 str.

Thomas Elsaesser; Thom Elsaesser;Elsaesser Thoma

Opis

In Hollywood Time, one of the most influential figures in the study of classical Hollywood cinema examines various paradigms for reading Hollywood and its cinema. In chapters on the great age of melodrama, the era of 'New Hollywood', post-classical Hollywood, and the current culture of digital Hollywood, Thomas Elsaesser considers the applicability of classical film theory and alternatives to it. Bringing together some of Eslaesser's classic texts along with many of his never-before-published essays, this volume explores a broad range of topics from cinephilia and auteurs--Nicholas Ray, Sam Fuller, Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, among others--to melodrama, digital cinema, and even time- travel films.

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Part I: Flashback: Of Objects of Love and Objects of Study 1. Film Studies in Britain: Cinephilia, Screen Theory and Cultural Studies 2. The Name for a Pleasure That Has No Substitute: Vincente Minnelli 3. All the Lonely Places: The Heroes of Nicholas Ray 4. Sam Fuller's Productive Pathologies: The Hero as (His Own Best) Enemy 5. Cinephilia: Or the Uses of Disenchantment Part II: Genius of the System 6. The Persistence of Hollywood, Part I: The Continuity Principle 7. Why Hollywood? 8. Narrative Cinema and Audience Aesthetics: The Mise-en-Scène of the Spectator 9. Film as System: Or How to Step Through an Open Door 10. Gangsters and Grapefruits: The Public Enemy Part III: Studio and Genre: Auteurs Maudits, Mavericks and Eminent Europeans 11. Transatlantic Triangulations: William Dieterle and the Warner Bros Biopics 12. Welles and Virtuosity: Citizen Kane as Character-Mask 13. The Dandy in Hitchcock 14. Too Big and Too Close: Alfred Hitchcock and Fritz Lang 15. Robert Altman’s Nashville: Putting on the Show 16. Stanley Kubrick’s Prototypes: The Author as World-Maker Part IV: Genie out of the Bottle – The Return of the System as Auteur? 17. The Pathos of Failure: Notes on the Unmotivated Hero 18. Auteur Cinema and the New Economy Hollywood 19. The Love that Never Dies: Francis Ford Coppola and Bram Stoker's Dracula 20. The Blockbuster as Time Machine 21. Auteurism Today: Signature Products, Concept-Authors and Access for All: Avatar Part V: The Persistence of Hollywood 22. Digital Hollywood: Between Truth, Belief and Trust 23. The Persistence of Hollywood, Part II: Reflexivity, Feedback and Self-Regulation