Hollywood, hype and audiences : selling and watching popular film in the 1990s / Thomas Austin.
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- English
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- Physical Description:
- 257 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2002.
- Summary:
- This book traces the circulation in Britain of three Hollywood films--"Basic Instinct," "Bram Stoker's Dracula" and "Natural Born Killers" --from marketing and critical reception to consumption in cinemas and on video. It draws on economic discursive contexts and original audience research to trace how meanings, pleasures, and uses are derived from popular film. A significant intervention into methodological debates in film studies and a timely investigation of film culture, it focuses on key questions about genre, taste, sexual pleasure and screen violence.
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- 1 Introduction: a multi-dimensional approach to popular film 1
- 3 Basic Instinct: 'woman on top'? 43
- 4 Bram Stoker's Dracula: 'Gone with the Wind plus fangs' 114
- 5 Natural Born Killers: a film for hooligans? 152.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-254) and index.
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- OCLC:
- 48943882
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