Prior to being broken up by the Supreme Court in 1946, the movie industry was a vertical monopoly controlled primarily by eight studios. Ironically, today just six vertically and horizontally integrated companies have a world-wide monopoly on all forms of media. How did this vast power become so concentrated-and where do we go from here?
Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: American Film in the Digital Age 2. From the Business of Film to the Business of Entertainment: Hollywood in the Age of Digital Technology (by Yannis Tzioumakis) 3. The Guillotine Has Fallen and the Beaches of Malibu Are Littered with Carcasses: The Death of American Independent Movies 4. Sex and Censorship since Monicagate: Whither the Artistic "X"? 5. Genre Goes Pastiche: Genre in Contemporary Hollywood 6. Navigating the Contemporary Hollywood Business Model: Directors in the Digital Age 7. The Rise and Fall of the $100 Million Paycheck: Hollywood Stardom since 1990 (by Anne Helen Petersen) 8. TV: The Last Best Hope? 9. "The Future, Mr. Gittes. The Future": Next Wave Filmmaking and Beyond Index
Robert C. Sickels, PhD, is professor of American film and popular culture in the Department of Rhetoric & Film Studies at Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA.
"In this insightful, well-written volume Sickels (Whitman College) goes behind the scenes of American film to provide context for the many changes that have taken place in the digital age... The book serves as an excellent example of film criticism that takes into account the relationship between the worlds of business and cinema." - Choice
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