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1 online resource (242 pages) |
| Contents |
Front Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Is the Producer Always Right?; Chapter One: Is the Cinema Really Dead?; Chapter Two: Some Vagaries of Distribution and Exhibition; Chapter Three: Some Vagaries of Promotion and Criticism; Chapter Four: At War with Cultural Violence: The Critical Reception of Small Soldiers; Chapter Five: Communications Problems and Canons; Chapter Six: The AFI's Contribution to Movie Hell or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love American Movies; Chapter Seven: Isolationism as a Control System |
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Chapter Eight: Multinational Pest Control: Does American Cinema Still Exist?Chapter Nine: Trafficking in Movies: (Festival-Hopping in the Nineties); Chapter Ten: Orson Welles as Ideological Challenge; Conclusion: The Audience Is Sometimes Right; Index |
| Summary |
Is the cinema, as writers from David Denby to Susan Sontag haveclaimed, really dead? Contrary to what we have been led to believe, films are better than ever--we just can't see the good ones. Movie Warscogently explains how movies are packaged, distributed, and promoted, and how, at every stage of the process, the potential moviegoer is .. |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- United States.
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Motion pictures
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781556529924 |
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1556529929 |
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9781556524547 |
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1556524544 |
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