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Loving & Hating Hollywood Reframing Global & Local Cinemas
Paperback Edition: 1
As the paradigm by which most other cinemas define themselves and are judged, Hollywood is thought to determine the shape of all national and local cinemas. But is Hollywood really such a homogenous and homogenising monolith? Jane Mills challenges the widespread notion of a Hollywood
bounded and fixed at the centre of a stable cultural landscape, to propose a new way of understanding inter-cinematic relationships. Placing her close readings of films within the framework of globalising processes, she shows that the cultural flows between cinemas are more fluid and their borders more porous than commonly assumed. Loving and Hating Hollywood puts globalisation firmly on the agenda for cinema studies. It challenges filmmakers, critics and audiences to see the film world afresh and to recognise the power of dissident imagination wherever its geographical homeland may be.
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Pages : 249
Publisher : Allen & Unwin Academic
Publication date : 2009
Subjects: Non-fiction, Art/design/film