The Persistence of Hollywood (Paperback)

Part I: Flashback: Of Objects of Love and Objects of Study 1. Film Studies in Britain: Cinephilia, Screen Theory and Cultural Studies 2. The Name for a Pleasure That Has No Substitute: Vincente Minnelli 3. All the Lonely Places: The Heroes of Nicholas Ray 4. Sam Fuller's Productive Pathologies: The Hero as (His Own Best) Enemy 5. Cinephilia: Or the Uses of Disenchantment Part II: Genius of the System 6. The Persistence of Hollywood, Part I: The Continuity Principle 7. Why Hollywood? 8. Narrative Cinema and Audience Aesthetics: The Mise-en-Scene of the Spectator 9. Film as System: Or How to Step Through an Open Door 10. Gangsters and Grapefruits: The Public Enemy Part III: Studio and Genre: Auteurs Maudits, Mavericks and Eminent Europeans 11. Transatlantic Triangulations: William Dieterle and the Warner Bros Biopics 12. Welles and Virtuosity: Citizen Kane as Character-Mask 13. The Dandy in Hitchcock 14. Too Big and Too Close: Alfred Hitchcock and Fritz Lang 15. Robert Altman’s Nashville: Putting on the Show 16. Stanley Kubrick’s Prototypes: The Author as World-Maker Part IV: Genie out of the Bottle ? The Return of the System as Auteur? 17. The Pathos of Failure: Notes on the Unmotivated Hero 18. Auteur Cinema and the New Economy Hollywood 19. The Love that Never Dies: Francis Ford Coppola and Bram Stoker's Dracula 20. The Blockbuster as Time Machine 21. Auteurism Today: Signature Products, Concept-Authors and Access for All: Avatar Part V: The Persistence of Hollywood 22. Digital Hollywood: Between Truth, Belief and Trust 23. The Persistence of Hollywood, Part II: Reflexivity, Feedback and Self-Regulation