Hollywood Cinema: An Introduction

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Considering the Hollywood cinema as both commercial and aesthetic practice Hollywood Cinema offers comprehensive coverage of the worlds most powerful film industry and some of its most popular and profitable movies. Examining films as diverse as Rudolph Valentinos The Son of the Sheik and Arnold Schwarzeneggers Total Recall this original study combines a wealth of information on the operation of Hollywood with a polemical account of those criticisms and theories through which movie scholars have sought to understand its labyrithine operations. This is the broadest ranging account of Hollywood Cinema available covering its subject from historical social cultural economic and theoretical angles alike synthesizing theory and research. Accessible explanatory and fully illustrated with film stills and line drawings.