Hollywood Genres: Formulas, Filmmaking, and The Studio System

Hollywood Genres: Formulas, Filmmaking, and The Studio System
Title Hollywood Genres: Formulas, Filmmaking, and The Studio System PDF eBook
Author Thomas Schatz
Publisher McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Pages 324
Release 1981-02
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN

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The central thesis of this book is that a genre approach provides the most effective means for understanding, analyzing and appreciating the Hollywood cinema. Taking into account not only the formal and aesthetic aspects of feature filmmaking, but various other cultural aspects as well, the genre approach treats movie production as a dynamic process of exchange between the film industry and its audience. This process, embodied by the Hollywood studio system, has been sustained primarily through genres, those popular narrative formulas like the Western, musical and gangster film, which have dominated the screen arts throughout this century.

Hollywood Genres

Hollywood Genres
Title Hollywood Genres PDF eBook
Author Thomas Schatz
Publisher Random House Trade
Pages 297
Release 1981
Genre Film genres
ISBN 9780394322551

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Hollywood Genres

Hollywood Genres
Title Hollywood Genres PDF eBook
Author Thomas Schatz
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 1981
Genre Film genres
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The Genius of the System

The Genius of the System
Title The Genius of the System PDF eBook
Author Thomas Schatz
Publisher Henry Holt and Company
Pages 530
Release 2015-06-02
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1627796452

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At a time when the studio is making a stunning comeback, film historian Thomas Schatz provides an indispensable account of Hollywood's tradional blend of business and art. This book lays to rest the persistent myth that businesspeople and producers stifle artistic talent and reveals instead the genius of a system of collaboration and conflict. Working from industry documents, Schatz traces the development of house styles, the rise and fall of careers, and the making-and unmaking-of movies, from Frankenstein to Spellbound to Grand Hotel. Richly illustrated and highly readable, The Genius of the System gives the definitive view of the workings of the Old Hollywood and the foundations of the New.

Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan-- and Beyond

Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan-- and Beyond
Title Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan-- and Beyond PDF eBook
Author Robin Wood
Publisher Columbia University Press
Pages 424
Release 2003
Genre History
ISBN 9780231129664

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This new edition includes all the chapters of the original work, supplemented with analysis of comedy films of the 1990s, a chapter on contemporary filmmakers, including David Fincher & Jim Jarmusch, & an essay on 'Day of the Dead'

Language and Cinema

Language and Cinema
Title Language and Cinema PDF eBook
Author Christian Metz
Publisher Walter de Gruyter
Pages 305
Release 2011-11-21
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 3110816040

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Boom and Bust

Boom and Bust
Title Boom and Bust PDF eBook
Author Thomas Schatz
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 596
Release 1999-11-23
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 9780520221307

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On the history of motion pictures