“…Este libro estudia las formas en que las películas producidas por los grandes estudios de Hollywood transmiten unos determinados elementos ideológicos que garantizan el consenso nacional y proyectan una imagen externa funcional a los intereses de quienes ejercen el poder en la Casa Blanca. …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- National Cinema: Re-Definitions and New Directions -- European Culture, National Cinema, the Auteur and Hollywood -- ImpersoNations: National Cinema, Historical Imaginaries -- Film Festival Networks: The New Topographies of Cinema in Europe -- Double Occupancy and Small Adjustments: Space, Place and Policy in the New European Cinema since the 1990's -- Auteurs and Art Cinemas: Modernism and Self-Reference, Installation Art and Autobiography -- Ingmar Bergman - Person and Persona: The Mountain of Modern Cinema on the Road to Morocco -- Late Losey: Time Lost and Time Found -- Around Painting and the "End of Cinema": A Propos Jacques Rivette's La Belle Noiseuse -- Spellbound by Peter Greenaway: In the Dark ... and Into the Light -- The Body as Perceptual Surface: The Films of Johan van der Keuken -- Television and the Author's Cinema: ZDF's Das Kleine Fernsehspiel -- Touching Base: Some German Women Directors in the 1980's -- Europe-Hollywood-Europe -- Two Decades in Another Country: Hollywood and the Cinephiles -- Raoul Ruiz's L'Hypothèse du Tableau Volé -- Images for Sale: The "New" British Cinema -- "If You Want a Life": The Marathon Man -- British Television in the 1980's Through The Looking Glass -- German Cinema Face to Face with Hollywood: Looking into a Two-Way Mirror -- Central Europe Looking West -- Of Rats and Revolution: Dusan Makavejev's The Switchboard Operator -- Defining DEFA's Historical Imaginary: The Films of Konrad Wolf / Under Western Eyes: What Does Žižek Want? …”

“…From Capra to Kidman and Hitchcock to Nicholson, Thomson examines the passion, vanity, calculation and gossip of Hollywood and the films it has given us. This one-volume history is a brilliant and illuminating overview of “the wonder in the dark”and the staggering impact Hollywood and its films has had on American culture…”
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“…Hollywood in the age of the blockbuster…”