Quality Hollywood: Markers of Distinction in Contemporary Studio Film

by Geoff King

What defines 'quality' in contemporary Hollywood film? Although often seen as inhospitable to such work, the studios of the blockbuster-franchise era continue to produce features that make claims to higher status. Films such as The Social Network, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and Mystic River are marked as distinctive from the mainstream norm. But how exactly, and how are such qualities mixed with more familiar Hollywood...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784530441
• ISBN13: 9781784530440
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"