Peter Decherney

Hollywood: A Very Short Introduction

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Produktbeschreibung

Peter Decherney tells the story of Hollywood, from its nineteenth-century origins to the emergence of internet media empires.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 172mm x 108mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 126g
• ISBN-13: 9780199943548
• ISBN-10: 0199943540
• Artikelnr.: 42792312

Autorenporträt

Peter Decherney is Professor of Cinema Studies and English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author or editor of five books including Hollywood's Copyright Wars: From Edison to the Internet. Professor Decherney has been an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Scholar, a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies, and a U.S. State Department Arts Envoy to Myanmar. He has received multiple teaching awards and is a Forbes.com contributor.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Five Theses on the History of Hollywood
1. Before Hollywood
2. The Studio System
3. Sound and the Production Code
4. Hollywood at War
5. The Blacklist and Cold War
6. The New Hollywood
7. Home Video and Indiewood
8. Digital Cinema and the Internet