'The contributors supply skilful overviews of the major critical approaches' Sight and Sound May 1998 Top international contributors Emphasis throughout on critical concepts, methods and debates Learning aids include chapter summaries, critiques of individual films and further reading This text is perfectly tailored to meet the needs of students taking a course in Hollywood cinema as part of a degree in film, media studies, or cultural studies.

AMERICAN CINEMA: HISTORY, INDUSTRY, AND INTERPRETATION 1. American Cinema and Film History, John Belton 2. History and Cinema Technology, Duncan Petrie 3. Hollywood as Industry, Douglas Gomery 4. Early American Film, Tom Gunning 5. Classical Hollywood Film and Melodrama, E. Ann Kaplan Readings: Casablanca, Richard Maltby Casablanca, Rick Altman 6. Post-classical Hollywood, Peter Kramer CRITICAL CONCEPTS 7. Authorship and Hollywood, Stephen Crofts Reading: `John Ford', Peter Wollen 8. Genre and Hollywood, Tom Ryall Reading: `Body Genres', Linda Williams 9. The Star System and Hollywood, Jeremy G. Butler POLITICS AND SOCIETY 10. Hollywood Film and Society, Douglas Kellner Reading: `Hollywood and Ideology', Robert B. Ray 11. Film Policy: Hollywood and Beyond, Albert Moran 12. Hollywood and the World, Toby Miller