"Despite being one of the biggest industries in the United States, indeed the World, the internal workings of the 'dream factory' that is Hollywood is little understood outside the business. The Hollywood Studio System: A History is the first book to describe and analyse the com…
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"Despite being one of the biggest industries in the United States, indeed the World, the internal workings of the 'dream factory' that is Hollywood is little understood outside the business. The Hollywood Studio System: A History is the first book to describe and analyse the com…
'The Hollywood Studio System' describes and analyses the complete development, classic operation, and reinvention of the global corporate entitities which produce and distribute most of the films we watch.
"Focusing on six significant early film corporations in the United States and France--the Edison Manufacturing Company, American Mutoscope and Biograph, American Vitagraph, Georges Méliès's Star Films, Gaumont, and Pathé Frères--as well as smaller producers and film companies, S…
The most up-to-date study of the Hollywood romantic comedy film, from the development of sound to the 21st century, this book examines the history and conventions of the genre and surveys the controversies arising from the critical responses to these films
For almost three decades the big Hollywood studios have operated classics divisions or specialty labels, subsidiaries that originally focused on the foreign art house film market, while more recently (and controversially) moving on to the American 'indie' film market. This is th…
