Books like Hollywood genres by Thomas Schatz

A History of Narrative Film traces the evolution of world cinema, blending film history, aesthetics, and analysis of technological, social, and economic contexts.

"Seeing Is Believing is a look at the Hollywood fifties movies we all love - or love to hate - and the thousand subtle ways they reflect the political tensions of the decade. Peter Biskind concentrates on the films everybody saw but nobody really looked at, classics such as Giant, On the Waterfront, Rebel Without a Cause, and Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and shows us how movies that appear politically innocent in fact bear an ideological burden. As we see organization men and rugged individualists, housewives and career women, cops and docs, teen angels and teenage werewolves fight it out across the screen, from suburbia to the farthest reaches of the cosmos, we understand that we have been watching one long dispute about how to be a man, a woman, an American - the conflicts of the time in action."--BOOK JACKET.

"How to Read a Film: Movies, Media, Multimedia explores the medium as both art and craft, sensibility and science, tradition and technology. After examining film's close relation to such other narrative media as the novel, painting, photography, television, and even music, Monaco discusses those elements necessary to understand how films convey meaning and, more importantly, how we can best discern all that a film is attempting to communicate." "In a key departure from the book's previous editions, the new and still-evolving digital context of film is now emphasized throughout How to Read a Film. A new chapter on multimedia brings media criticism into the twenty-first century with a thorough discussion of topics like virtual reality, cyberspace, and the proximity of both to film. Monaco has likewise doubled the size and scope of his "Film and Media: A Chronology" appendix. The book also features a new introduction, an expanded bibliography, and hundreds of illustrative black-and-white film stills and diagrams. It is a must for all film students, media buffs, and movie fans."--BOOK JACKET.

This comprehensive introduction to Hollywood cinema provides a fascinating account of the world's most powerful film industry and examines its cultural and aesthetic significance. Taking a broad-ranging approach, it explores and interprets Hollywood cinema in history and in the present, in theory and in practice.

*Historia de Hollywood* explora la historia de la industria cinematográfica estadounidense desde los *nicklodeones* y la era muda hasta la actualidad. Se detiene a estudiar la consolidación de la filmación en color y pone especial énfasis en el nacimiento del 3-D y la pantalla panorámica, tecnologías introducidas por primera vez en la década de los años cincuenta. Además, hace un exhaustivo repaso del desarrollo financiero de cada compañía cinematográfica, y se pone al día al incluir los éxitos y fracasos de taquilla desde 1920, con especial atención a las películas de alto presupuesto de los últimos años. Asimismo, se recrea con los Óscar y las películas, actores y directores que han obtenido la estatuilla. Hollywood es sinónimo de cine americano. Poderosos magnates, hermosas estrellas, arte y comercio, éxito y fracaso al extremo... todo encapsulado en este nombre del pequeño distrito situado al noroeste de Los Ángeles, que se convirtió en el centro mundial de la producción cinematográfica.