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The Classical Hollywood . .has been added to your Basket. By clarifying exactly what the Hollywood style is, this book has changed some of the ways I watch cinema.

The Classical Hollywood . Bordwell and his colleagues show how economic, technical and cultural factors joined to create what they call the classical Hollywood movie. They define that form as emphasizing continuity of character, time and location, all tied together by cause and effect. The Hollywood movie hews close to the Aristotelian dictum that nothing should be in the presentation that does not further the narrative. The reference to the philosopher is mine, not the authors.

Home Browse Books Book details, The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style &. Yet another treatment of the subject requires some justification. This book is an examination of Hollywood cinema as a distinct artistic and economic phenomenon

Home Browse Books Book details, The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style &. The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style & Mode of Production to 1960. This book is an examination of Hollywood cinema as a distinct artistic and economic phenomenon. We will look at American studio filmmaking much as an art historian would trace the stylistic traits and business transactions of Parisian academic painting in the nineteenth century, or as a historian of music would examine the aesthetic and economic forces involved in the development of Viennese classicism.

David Bordwell, Janet Staiger, and Kristin Thompson. This is a look back at a book that we wrote in the early 1980s and that was published in 1985. For more on the book, and our rationale for posting this essay, see the blog entry here. Some background The Classical Hollywood Cinema went through two major phases of development. Kristin and David had been thinking about a project on Hollywood film style for a while. Janet, who had for a seminar with Douglas Gomery written a paper on early screenwriting and division of labor, joined them in the runup to her Ph. D. comprehensive examinations in spring of 1979.

In The Classical Hollywood Cinema, she and her co-authors pointed out that they were not covering exhibition . In these books and articles, Staiger has examined how we understand interpretations produced by everyday audiences

In The Classical Hollywood Cinema, she and her co-authors pointed out that they were not covering exhibition and reception of these films by their everyday audiences. However, that problem intrigued Staiger. In these books and articles, Staiger has examined how we understand interpretations produced by everyday audiences. Trying to stress contextual factors and social identities (sex, gender, race, sexuality, age), she focused on normal and unusual audience responses (. underground movies being used for community-building, images being collected and preserved for remembering movies, men crying at James Bond films).

Acclaimed for their breakthrough approach, Bordwell, Staiger and Thompson analyze the basic conditions of American film-making as a historical institution and consider to what extent Hollywood film production constitutes a systematic enterprise, in both its style and its business.

Acclaimed for their breakthrough approach, Bordwell, Staiger and Thompson analyze the basic conditions of American film-making as a historical institution and consider to what extent Hollywood film production constitutes a systematic enterprise, in both its style and its business operations.

Nigel Andrews Financial Times Acclaimed for their breakthrough approach, Bordwell, Staiger and Thompson analyze the basic conditions of American film-making as a historical institution and consider to what extent Hollywood film production constitutes a systematic enterprise, in both its style and its business operations.

David Bordwell, Janet Staiger, Kristin Thompson. A dense, challenging and important book. Philip French Observer. At the very least, this blockbuster is probably the best single volume history of Hollywood we're likely to get. At the very least, this blockbuster is probably the best single volume history of Hollywood we're likely to get for a very long time. Paul Kerr City Limits. Persuasively argued, the book is also packed with facts, figures and photographs. Nigel Andrews Financial Times

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by Kristin Thompson, David Bordwell, Janet Staiger. What this book does is to study the classical years- The classical narrative and how the system, style and people made together these classical movies.