The Hollywood film industry : a reader / edited by Paul Kerr.

The contemporary Hollywood film industry / edited by Paul McDonald and Janet Wasko.

Post-classical Hollywood : film industry, style and ideology since 1945 / Barry Langford. by Langford, Barry, 1964-

Post-classical Hollywood : film industry, style and ideology since 1945 / Barry Langford. by Langford, Barry, 1964-

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Directory of world cinema : American Hollywood / edited by Lincoln Geraghty.

Table of Contents: “…Hollywood: a history? -- The Hollywood film industry -- Stardom -- Directors -- Westerns -- Crime film -- Science fiction -- Horror -- Comedy -- Historical films -- Musicals -- War films -- Drama -- Romance -- Animation -- Blockbusters.…”
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Directory of world cinema. edited by Lincoln Geraghty.

Table of Contents: “…Hollywood: A History? -- The Hollywood Film Industry -- Stardom -- Directors -- Westerns -- Crime Film -- Science Fiction -- Horror -- Comedy -- Historical Films -- Musicals -- War Films -- Drama -- Romance -- Animation -- Blockbusters -- Recommended Reading -- Online Resources.…”

Big media, big money : cultural texts and political economics / Ronald V. Bettig and Jeanne Lynn Hall. by Bettig, Ronald V.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: beat the press -- Media merger mania: concentration in the media industry -- The Hollywood film industry: do we really need it? -- The music industry: the payer calls the tune -- The news and advertising industries: all the news that fits -- Ad creep: the commercialization of culture -- The commercialization of education: students for sale -- Media and democracy: taking it to the streets.…”
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The turn to gruesomeness in American horror films, 1931-1936 / Jon Towlson. by Towlson, Jon, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…"Nightmare pictures": Thirties Horror and the Hollywood Film Industry; 2. "Five reels of transgression followed by one reel of retribution": Thirties Horror and the Studios; 3. …”
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The depiction of terrorists in blockbuster Hollywood films, 1980-2001 : an analytical study / Helena Vanhala. by Vanhala, Helena

Table of Contents: “…International terrorism and the news media -- International terrorism and the United States -- International terrorism and the Hollywood film industry -- The Hollywood terrorist and the Cold War. …”

Obscene, indecent, immoral, and offensive : 100+ years of censored, banned, and controversial films / Stephen Tropiano. by Tropiano, Stephen

Table of Contents: “…Censorship and silent cinema, or why a kiss is no longer just a kiss -- Movies, morality, and the (self-)regulation of the Hollywood film industry -- %@!%!#@#-- a few choice words about bad language -- Guns, gangs, and random acts of ultra-violence -- Sins of the flesh: sex and nudity on celluloid -- A hotbed of controversy: politics and religion -- [Appendices] -- "The Thirteen Points" adopted by NAMPI (1921) -- "The formula" (1924) -- The "Dont's and be carefuls" of the MPPDA (1927) -- The Motion picture production code (1930) -- Supplement to the Motion picture production code (1930) - Reasons for the Code -- The Legion of Decency -- The Motion picture ratings system (1968) -- The Motion picture production code: revisions of the profanity clause -- Special regulations on crime in motion pictures (1938)…”

The Coen brothers' America / M. Keith Booker. by Booker, M. Keith

Table of Contents: “…: anarchic comedy in Raising Arizona, The ladykillers, and Burn after reading -- Joel and Ethan do Hammett and Chandler: Miller's crossing, The big Lebowski, and the hard-boiled tradition -- How the sausage gets made: inside the Hollywood film industry in Barton Fink and Hail, Caesar! -- Star-crossed lovers: The Hudsucker proxy, Intolerable cruelty, and the American tradition of screwball comedy -- Laughing to keep from dying in the suburbs: black comedy in Fargo and A serious man -- From soggy bottom to Greenwich Village: American music in O brother, where art thou? …”
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Invasion USA : essays on anti-communist movies of the 1950s and 1960s / edited by David J. Hogan.

Negotiating Hollywood : the Cultural Politics of Actors Labor. by Clark, Danae

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Conflict of interest in the professions / edited by Michael Davis, Andrew Stark.

Table of Contents: “…Boatright -- The economics of the critic / Tyler Cowen -- Conflict of interest in the Hollywood film industry : coming to America--tales from the casting couch, gross and net, in a risky business / Thomas E. …”
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Film and literature : a comparative approach to adaptation / edited by Wendell Aycock and Michael Schoenecke.

Table of Contents: “…Writing for film / Horton Foote -- A mythical kingdom : the Hollywood film industry in the 1930s and 1940s / Samuel Marx -- "The whole world--Willie Stark" : novel and film of All the king's men / Robert Murray Davis -- One flew over the cuckoo's nest : a tale of two decades / Thomas J. …”

The coming of sound : a history / Douglas Gomery. by Gomery, Douglas

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Selling Shakespeare to Hollywood : the Marketing of Filmed Shakespeare Adaptations from 1989 into the New Millennium. by French, Emma

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Cold War exiles in Mexico : U.S. dissidents and the culture of critical resistance / Rebecca M. Schreiber. by Schreiber, Rebecca Mina

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Genre, Gender and the Effects of Neoliberalism : the New Millennium Hollywood Rom Com. by Kaklamanidou, Betty

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Boom / Arts and Entertainment Network.

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