...This chapter studies some of the afterlives of Hot Fuzz (2007), partly in terms of films that followed it, but particularly in terms of the fortunes of its main star, Simon Pegg, and his collaborator Edgar Wright. Pegg's seemingly improbable transition to (kind-of) Hollywood star...

... success, leading to the creation of the RoboCop universe, extending into television, video games, animation, and numerous sequels. The chapter then considers Verhoeven's work in the Hollywood science-fiction genre. The success of RoboCop led to an interest in science...

... such as The Godfather. Al Pacino Francis Ford Coppola The Godfather The Godfather part II Scarecrow Dog Day Afternoon …and Justice for All The Panic in Needle Park Serpico New Hollywood That isn’t supposed to matter, I think, because the movie is really supposed to be about Pacino’s progressive...

...This chapter assesses the emergence of American independent horror, looking at George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968). By the mid-1960s, the traditional Hollywood studio system was responsible for only around 20 per cent of America's film production. The remainder came...

...The Hollywood novel emerged in 1912, on the heels of the rising Hollywood film industry. The Hollywood novel was a broad category that included romance, satire, and crime fiction, and revolved around a central theme, the ‘confusion of illusion and reality’. This chapter examines those Hollywood...

... literature pragmatism slavery Lapacherie Jean Gérard Ory Pascal Sirinelli Jean François Cro Magnon Degas Edgar Feuillière Edwige von Goethe Johann Wolfgang Gordon William Smirnoff religion Donald Duck Hollywood Kelly Grace Morgan Michèle the Noble Savage Bacall Lauren Barrymore Lionel...

...This chapter asserts that the renewed interest in Cleopatra during the twentieth century was an attempt to reconcile with the changing social status of women across the world. Cecil B. De Mille's Hollywood presentation of Cleopatra in 1934 showed a fantasy of a disrupted female...

... more post-modern horror aspects within its structure, such as naturalistic dialogue and urban settings; but also, how the film includes more traditional genre elements with its grand guignol flourishes and obsession with human fears about birth, life and death. Grieving Hollywood Cult Horror...

... analogy for modern times, highlighting Britain’s regretfully lazy attitudes towards, class, gender, motherhood and system based inequality. 21st Century Modernity Horror Film Cult Hollywood Class Gender Inequality My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive...

... in the cinema. From its beginnings in the post-war period to the epic violence of The Long Good Friday (1979), the British gangster film has always adapted itself to the surrounding social milieu. Very often it has none of the mythic quality of its Hollywood counterpart and is certainly lacking...

... by a series of governments that were struggling to maintain control of social unrest. To this state of affairs one can also add the influence of two distinct media cultures: British TV and Hollywood. The chapter considers three of the most socially reflective police films of the 1970s: All Coppers...

...This chapter discusses Ridley Scott's Blade Runner as a textbook case of how the contemporary Hollywood studio system works or rather fails to work properly. It explores Blade Runner as a case study of budgetary problems, falling outs, rows on the shoot, sneak...

... Pandora's Box they opened was to blossom in a few years into a world cinema industry and, at its peak, the fantastical Hollywood. Yet in the 30 years in which this miraculous construction was accomplished, audiences rarely had to listen to films, only watch them. Hence, the early decades of cinema were...

...This chapter evaluates the teen years of cinema, which roughly corresponds to World War I, 1914–1918. Many of the changes were under way before the war and only reached full development afterwards. Thus, the Hollywood studio system had its roots at the start of the teens, and it is only considered...

... Clark's Kids (1995). An altogether more iconoclastic, youth-centric social realism emerged in the mid-1990s in America with the work of Clark, a new wave asserting itself against the calcified norms of mainstream Hollywood. Kids charted its own distinctive realist...

... be seen as reworking themes using genre devices also made familiar to a Brazilian audience though their consumption of Hollywood films in cinemas and on TV. Ultimately, the relationship of the film to real life, real people, and real places stresses authenticity. City of God narration narrative...

... or transnational approach, and stretch the geographic and conceptual boundaries of science fiction cinema. Recurrent themes include genre discussions, engagement with Hollywood, and the international subgenre of science fiction parody. Chapters contain a variety of perspectives and styles: from gender and race...

...Wes Craven's Scream (1996) emerged at the point where the early Eighties American slasher cycle had effectively morphed into the post-Fatal Attraction trend for Hollywood thrillers that incorporated key slasher movie tropes. Scream emerged...

... form. The book features previously unpublished manuscripts and correspondence illustrating case studies of his screen writing during the 1930s for Hollywood feature films and in an innovative independent treatment; it examines the complexities of his role in the 1937 political documentary...

... to have been revamped to produce a series of innovative films that combine compelling elements of national identity and transnational features often borrowed from New Hollywood. These films are often described as popular in the sense of being 'seen by a large number of people', and 'reaching a broad...