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The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style & Mode of Production to 1960

David Bordwell, Janet Staiger, Kristin Thompson

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Shows that Hollywood films operate within a set of assumptions, shared by different genres, directors and studios, about how a film should look and sound. Details how these conventions came to standardize the whole filmmaking process itself.

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Shows that Hollywood films operate within a set of assumptions, shared by different genres, directors and studios, about how a film should look and sound. Details how these conventions came to standardize the whole filmmaking process itself.

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Shows that Hollywood films operate within a set of assumptions, shared by different genres, directors and studios, about how a film should look and sound. Details how these conventions came to standardize the whole filmmaking process itself.

Key concepts: Hollywood, Movie theater, Style (visual arts), Art, Production (economics), Mode of production, Mode (computer interface), Literature

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