Author:
Connor, J. D. author.
Imprint:Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2015]
Descriptionviii, 365 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Note:Logorrhea, or, How to watch a Hollywood movie -- Last of the independents : paranoid auteurs and the invention of neoclassical Hollywood -- The literal and the littoral : Jaws -- Paramount I : from the director's company to high concept -- Our man in Armani : the Ovitz interregnum -- The projections : neoclassicism in action -- Paramount II : the residue of design -- Let's make the weather : chaos comes to Hollywood -- Hollywood the day after tomorrow : neoclassical endings? -- That oceanic feeling : one merger too many -- The anxious epic and the qualms of empire : conglomerate overstretch.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-350) and index.