This extensively revised second edition offers a comprehensive introduction to Hollywood cinema, providing a fascinating account of the cultural and aesthetic significance of the world’s most powerful film industry.
- Provides a fascinating account of Hollywood history.
- Examines the cultural and aesthetic significance of the world's most powerful film industry.
- Explores and interprets Hollywood cinema in history and in the present, in theory and in practice.
- Extensively revised and updated with new chapter features including box sections, further reading lists, Notes and Queries, and chapter summaries.
