Hollywood

Nicholas Haeffner provides a comprehensive introduction to Alfred Hitchcock’s major British and Hollywood films, navigating students through a wealth of critical commentaries. One of the acknowledged giants of film, Hitchcock’s prolific half-century career spanned the silent and sound eras and resul..

Nicholas Haeffner provides a comprehensive introduction to Alfred Hitchcock’s major British and Hollywood films, navigating students through a wealth of critical commentaries. One of the acknowledged giants of film, Hitchcock’s prolific half-century career spanned the silent and sound eras and resul..

In this volume, contributors explore recent popular movies through the lens of film theory, beginning with industrial-economic analysis before moving into a predominately aesthetic and interpretive framework. The Hollywood films discussed cover a wide range from 300 to Fifty First Dates, from Brokeb..

This book argues that Hollywood melodramas of the Depression era engaged the political ideas underlying the welfare state policies of the New Deal. These ideas expanded the boundaries of the public realm and the purview of the government, such as liberal empathy, consumer citizenship, the refeudaliz..

From Inception to The Lake House, moviegoers are increasingly flocking to narratologically complex puzzle films. These puzzle movies borrow techniques—like fragmented spatio-temporal reality, time loops, unstable characters with split identities or unreliable narrators—more commonly attributed to ar..

This text explores the major movies through discussion of their themes and techniques and reveals how much Ford was concerned with the very issues that are central to us today: gender, race, the treatment of ethnic minorities and social outcasts, the nature of history and the relationship between my..

This text explores the major movies through discussion of their themes and techniques and reveals how much Ford was concerned with the very issues that are central to us today: gender, race, the treatment of ethnic minorities and social outcasts, the nature of history and the relationship between my..

This is the first comprehensive history of MGM from its origins in 1905 to the present...

First Published in 2012. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 2012. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

With the recent release of spectacular blockbuster films from Gladiator to The Lord of the Rings trilogy, the epic has once again become a major form in contemporary cinema. The orginal essays in this volume explore the tension between the evolving global context of film production and reception and..

While Hollywood’s success – its persistence – has remained constant for almost one hundred years, the study of its success has undergone significant expansion and transformation. Since the 1960s, Thomas Elsaesser’s research has spearheaded the study of Hollywood, beginning with his classic essays on..