Research Catalog

Title

Old Hollywood/New Hollywood : ritual, art, and industry / by Thomas Schatz.

Author

Schatz, Thomas, 1948-

Publication

Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press, ©1983.

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Details

Description

vi, 318 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Series Statement

Studies in cinema ; no. 15

Uniform Title

Studies in cinema ; no. 15.

Subject

• Motion pictures > United States > History
• Motion picture plays, American > History and criticism
• Motion picture plays, American
• Motion pictures
• Film
• Filmindustrie
• Vernieuwing
• Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) > History
• California > Los Angeles > Hollywood
• United States
• Los Angeles- Hollywood

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History

Note

• Revision of thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Iowa, 1976.
• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [305]-310.

Contents

Art, industry, and mass-mediated culture. High culture, mass culture, and the popular arts ; Mass-mediated mythmaking ; Genre production and the economy principle ; Another myth : the death of Hollwood ; Renaissance and retrenchment -- The Hollywood studio system. The independents and the MPPS ; The rise of the studio system ; Thomas H. Ince and the studio production system -- Narrative strategies in the classical Hollywood cinema. Toward a grammar of film narrative ; Narrative film as system ; The nature of narrative film technique ; Hollywood cinema and the issue of realism ; From infrastructure to superstructure -- Spatial context : communities in conflict. Determinate space and the individual hero ; Determnate space and the collective hero ; Indeterminate space -- Dynamization of space : animating the conflict. The individual hero ; The collective hero ; The doubled hero -- Sequential context : the conflict resolved. Rites of order ; The collective hero in determinate space ; Rites of intergration -- Hollywood in transition. The Paramount decree ; Commercial television : a mixed blessing ; Hollywood and the machinery of ideology -- The new Hollywood. The marketplace : from block booking to the blockbuster ; The late sixties and beyond : renaissance and retrenchment ; Godfather Coppola and the new Hollywood whiz kids ; The state of the art -- Modernist stratefies in the new Hollywood. The prospect of modernism in Hollywood cinema ; Annie Hall as a modernist text ; Genre and modernism -- Genre in the new Hollywood. Rites of orders in the new Hollywood ; Psycho, The birds, and the rise of the American horror film ; Hitchcock's legacy : thrillers, killer, and machines of entertainment ; Rites of integration in the new Hollywood.

ISBN

• 0835713083
• 9780835713085

LCCN

82001910

OCLC

• ocm08169738
• 8169738
• SCSB-55346

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library