Product Description: By integrating star studies and film industry studies, Hollywood Stardom reveals the inextricable bonds between culture and commerce in contemporary notions of film stardom. Integrates the traditions of star studies and industry studies to establish an original and innovative mode of analysis whereby the ‘star image’ is replaced with the ‘star brand’ Offers the first extensive analysis of stardom in the ‘post-studio’ era Combines genre, narrative, acting, and discourse analysis with aspects of marketing theory and the economic analysis of the film market Draws on an extensive body of research data not previously deployed in film scholarship A wide range of star examples are explored including George Clooney, Mel Gibson, Tom Cruise, Daniel Day-Lewis, Tom Hanks, Will Smith, and Julia Roberts...read more

Product Description: While Hollywood’s success – its persistence – has remained constant for almost one hundred years, the study of its success has undergone significant expansion and transformation. Since the 1960s, Thomas Elsaesser’s research has spearheaded the study of Hollywood, beginning with his classic essays on auteurism and cinephilia, focused around a director’s themes and style, up to his analysis of the "corporate authorship" of contemporary director James Cameron...read more

Product Description: As the paradigm by which most other cinemas define themselves and are judged, Hollywood is thought to determine the shape of all national and local cinemas. But is Hollywood really such a homogenous and homogenizing monolith? Jane Mills challenges the widespread notion of a Hollywood bounded and fixed at the center of a stable cultural landscape, to propose a new way of understanding inter-cinematic relationships...read more

Playwright and screenwriter Mamet gives us a subversive inside look at Hollywood from the perspective of a filmmaker who has always played the game his own way. Who really reads the scripts at the film studios? How is a screenplay like a personals ad? Whose opinion matters when revising a screenplay? Why are there so many producers listed in movie credits? And what do those producers do, anyway? Refreshingly unafraid to offend, Mamet provides hilarious, surprising, and bracingly forthright answers to these and other questions about virtually every aspect of filmmaking, from concept to script to screen. He covers topics ranging from 'How Scripts Got So Bad' to the oxymoron of 'Manners in Hollywood.' He takes us step-by-step through some of his favorite movie stunts and directorial tricks, and demonstrates that it is craft and crew, not stars and producers, that make great films.--From publisher description.A subversive, inside glimpse of the complex world of the film industry describes every aspect of filmmaking, from initial concept, to script, to screen, covering topics that range from 'How Scripts Got So Bad' to 'Manners in Hollywood.'

Product Description: Cultural Writing. RESULTS YOU CAN'T REFUSE: CELEBRATING 30 YEARS OF BB OPTICS reveals the story behind BB Optics, the one-man film laboratory of filmmaker and preservationist Bill Brand, opened in 1976. This book includes an article by Brand and small-gauge guru Toni Treadway on how to take better archival care of film works; it offers history, instruction, and valuable technical information...read more

A Hollywood screenwriter and journalist blacklisted during the 1950s chronicles her thirty-year exile in France in a memoir populated by such characters as Richard Nixon, John Wayne, Spencer Tracy, and Pablo Picasso.