Classical Hollywood Film Cycles

This book explores the ways in which Hollywood film cycles from the 1930s to the 1960s were shaped by their surrounding industrial contexts and market environments, to build an inclusive conception of the form, operation, and function of film cycles.

List of contents

Introduction Chapter One: ‘Pictures Seem to Run in Cycles’: Industry Discourse and the Economics of Cycles Chapter Two: The Girl Reporter Pictures: Programmer Cycles and Modes of SerialityChapter Three: The Prestige Cycle of Historical Biopics: Measuring the DelugeChapter Four: The Wartime Musical Revues: Cycles, Topicality and Industrial Flux Chapter Five: The Anti-Prejudice Pictures and the Process of Cycles Chapter Six: The Biblical Epics: Blockbuster Cycles and Market Control in the ‘New Era’ Chapter Seven: Beach Party Pictures: Independent Production, Circulation and Market Exploitation Chapter Eight: Conclusion: Cycles in Post-Classical Hollywood

About the author

Zoe Wallin is a Research Associate in the Department of Screen and Media at Flinders University, South Australia.

Summary

This book explores the ways in which Hollywood film cycles from the 1930s to the 1960s were shaped by their surrounding industrial contexts and market environments, to build an inclusive conception of the form, operation, and function of film cycles.

Product details

• Authors: Zoe Wallin
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780367660567
• ISBN: 978-0-367-66056-7
• No. of pages: 286
• Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Hollywood, California, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, c 1960 to c 1970, c 1950 to c 1959, c 1930 to c 1939, c 1960 to c 1969, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Film: styles & genres, Film Theory & Criticism, C 1945 To C 1960, Film: styles and genres, Film history, theory or criticism