Review
A first-rate contribution to the field of film studies. -- Chris Wyatt Cinescape Whatever your opinion of developments in American cinema over the last 30 years, you will be confirmed and challenged by King's aim of showing how these films can be approached and discussed in more than one way... this is going to be a useful resource for student, tutor, aficionado and historian alike. Film Quarterly King has a good handle on both the commercial and the artistic aspects of cinema, which is necessary for comprehending the topic, and he states his case in an academic yet generally accessible manner. Booklist [King's] discussion of the genre is one of the most reasonable to be found anywhere... recommended. Publishers Weekly Film professor King explores how popular films of the 60's through the 90's have been affected by Hollywood's primary function as a multibillion-dollar international business. Variety
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Product Description
New Hollywood extends from the radical gestures of the 'Hollywood Renaissance' of the late 1960s and early 1970s to the current dominance of the corporate blockbuster. Geoff King covers new Hollywood dynamically and accessibly in this thoroughly modern introductory text. He discusses diverse films as well as the film-makers and film companies, focusing on the interactions between the film texts, their social contexts and the industry producing them. Using examples across Hollywood and its genres, King reveals how the positions of studios within media conglomerates, together with the impact of television, advertising and franchising on the New Hollywood, shape the form and content of the films.
About the Author
Geoff King is Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at Brunel University. He is the author of Spectacular Narratives (I.B.Tauris).
