The Contemporary Hollywood Reader

Part 1: Production. 1. Introduction 2. Structure. Hollywood Genres and the Production of Culture Perspective. Digital Film and 'Late' Capitalism. Economic and Institutional Analysis: Hollywood as Monopoly Capitalism. Vertical Integration in Motion Pictures. 3. Artists. Women and Men in Film: Gender Inequality Among Writers in a Culture Industry. Double Jeopardy in Hollywood: Age and Gender in the Careers of Film Actors, 1926-1999. The Twilight Zone of Contemporary Hollywood Production. The Lady in the Tutti-Frutti Hat: Carmen Miranda, a Spectacle of Ethnicity. Studs Have Feelings, Too: Warren Beatty and the Question of Star Discourse and Gender. The Star and the Commodity: Notes Towards a Performance Theory of Stardom. 4. Globalization. Chinese Diaspora and Orientalism in Globalized Cultural Production: Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. New Zealand as Middle Earth: Local and Global Popular Communication in a Small Nation. Hollywood and the World: The Geography of Motion-Picture Distribution and Marketing. Behind the Scenes: How Transnational Firms are Constructing a New International Division of Labor in Media Work. PART 2: Text. 1. Introduction. 2. Genre. Genre. Out of What Past? Notes on the B Film Noir. 3. Pleasure. Miranda Prorsus: Encyclical Letter on Motion Pictures, Radio and Television. Serious Pleasures: Cinematic Pleasure and the Notion of Fun. Lost in the Funhouse. Throwing Shade in the Kingdom. 4. Representation. A Circus of Dreams and Lies: The Black Film Wave at Middle Age. Women and Smoking in Hollywood Movies: A Content Analysis. A Rose is a Rose? Real Women and a Lost War. Citizen Chicano: The Trials and Titillations of Ethnicity in the American Cinema, 1935-1962. Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People. PART 3: Circulation. 1. Introduction. 2. Distribution. Film Distribution as Media: Mapping Difference in the Bolivian Cinemascape. Marketing the Hollywood Blockbuster in France.How Critical are Critical Reviews? The Box Office

Toby Miller is Professor of Media & Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside. His teaching and research cover media, sport, labor, gender, race, citizenship, politics, and cultural policy. Toby is the author and editor of over 20 volumes, and has published essays in over 100 journals and books. His current research covers the success of Hollywood overseas, the links between culture and citizenship, and anti-Americanism.