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Exhibition, The Film Reader
Series: In Focus: Routledge Film Readers
From the kinetoscope, used by one viewer at a time, to the lavish movie palaces of Hollywood's golden era, the experience of watching films has varied enormously across film. Exhibition, The Film Reader traces the emergence of a culture of moviegoing, exploring the range of venues in which films...
Published December 12th 2001 by Routledge
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The Road Movie Book
The Road Movie Book is the first comprehensive study of an enduring but ever-changing Hollywood genre, its place in American culture, and its legacy to world cinema. The road and the cinema both flourished in the twentieth century, as technological advances brought motion pictures to a mass...
Published October 15th 1997 by Routledge
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Screening the Male
Exploring Masculinities in the Hollywood Cinema
Screening the male re-examines the problematic status of masculinity both in Hollywood cinema and feminist film theory.Classical Hollywood cinema has been theoretically established as a vast pleasure machine, manufacturing an idealized viewer through its phallocentric ideological apparatus....
Published February 17th 1992 by Routledge