The classical Hollywood reader
By: edited by Steve Neale
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780415576727; 9780415576741
Subjects: Motion pictures; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Emotional curves and linear narratives / Patrick Keating; title: Feature films, Hollywood and the advent of the studio system, 1912-1926. The quality race: feature films and market dominance in the US and Europe in the 1910s / Berben Bakker; title: Making movies, 1915-1928 / Richard Koszarski; title: The limits of experimentation in Hollywood / Kristin Thompson; title: Doing a man's work: the rise of the studio system and the remasculinization of filmmaking / Karen Ward Mahar; title: Hollywood's conception of its audiences in the 1920s / Lea Jacobs and Andrea Cominsky; title: Sound and the studio system, 1926-1946. The coming of sound: technological change in the American film industry / Douglas Gomery; title: Hollywood babel: Ginette Vincendeau considers the coming of sound and the multiple language version / Ginette Vincendeau; title: Organization / Howard T. Lewis; title: Hollywood: the triumph of the studio system / Thomas Schatz; title: Cinemagoing in the United States in the mid-1930s: a study based on the variety dataset / Mark Glancy and John Sedgwick; title: Selling stars / Tino Balio; title: Representation, technology, production and style, 1926-1946. The production code and the mythologies of "pre-code" hollywood / Richard Maltby; title: Commanding the sounds of the universe: classical hollywood sound / Steve Neale; title: The classical Hollywood film score / Kathryn Kalinak; title: Shooting for Selznick: craft and collaboration in Hollywood cinematography / Patrick Keating; title: Order and plenitude: technicolor aesthetics in the classical era / Scott Higgins; title: The Disney-Fleischer dilemma: product differentiation and technological innovation / Mark Langer; title: Postwar Hollywood and the end of the studio system, 1946-1966.  Individualism versus collectivism: Janet Staiger reconsiders the shift to  independent production in the US film industry; title: Ozoners, roadshows and blitz exhibitionism: postwar developments in distribution and exhibition / Sheldon Hall; title: Glorious technicolor, breathtaking cinemascope, and stereophonic sound / John Belton; title: Hollywood and television in the 1950s: the roots of diversification / Janet Wasko; title: Hollywood and politics in the 1940s and 1950s / Brian Neve; title: Arties and imports, exports and runaways, adult films and exploitation / Steve Neale; title: Epilogue.