Quality Hollywood - Markers of Distinction in Contemporary Studio Film (Hardcover)

What defines quality in contemporary Hollywood film? Although often seen as inhospitable to such work, the studios of the blockbuster-franchise era continue to produce features that make claims to higher status. Films such as The Social Network, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and Mystic River are marked as distinctive from the mainstream norm. But how exactly, and how are such qualities mixed with more familiar Hollywood ingredients, as found in larger doses in other examples such as Blood Diamond and the blockbuster-scale Inception? Quality Hollywood is the first book to address these issues, featuring close analysis of case study films, critical responses and the wider notions of cultural value on which these draw. Geoff King argues that such films retain a presence as a minority strand of studio output. The reasons for this combine factors relating to economics, the power of certain filmmakers and Hollywood s investment in its own prestige."

General

Imprint:	I.B. Tauris
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2015
Authors:	Geoff King (Professor of Film Studies)
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Unsewn / adhesive bound
Pages:	336
ISBN-13:	978-1-78453-045-7
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > Film theory & criticism
LSN:	1-78453-045-X
Barcode:	9781784530457

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