Classical Hollywood Film Cycles

ISBN-13: 9780367199531 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 286 str.

Zoe Wallin

Opis

This book explores the ways in which Hollywood film cycles from the 1930s to the 1960s were shaped by their surrounding industrial contexts and market environments, to build an inclusive conception of the form, operation, and function of film cycles.

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Spis treści

Introduction Chapter One: ‘Pictures Seem to Run in Cycles’: Industry Discourse and the Economics of Cycles Chapter Two: The Girl Reporter Pictures: Programmer Cycles and Modes of SerialityChapter Three: The Prestige Cycle of Historical Biopics: Measuring the DelugeChapter Four: The Wartime Musical Revues: Cycles, Topicality and Industrial Flux Chapter Five: The Anti-Prejudice Pictures and the Process of Cycles Chapter Six: The Biblical Epics: Blockbuster Cycles and Market Control in the ‘New Era’ Chapter Seven: Beach Party Pictures: Independent Production, Circulation and Market Exploitation Chapter Eight: Conclusion: Cycles in Post-Classical Hollywood

O autorze

Zoe Wallin is a Research Associate in the Department of Screen and Media at Flinders University, South Australia.