Film As Product in Contemporary Hollywood

by Nick Lacey, Roy Stafford

Overview

This teaching pack, suitable for AS/A2 Media and Film Studies, offers a suitable case study for industry and institution and help students demonstrate an understanding of key concepts and contemporary Hollywood.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781838715731
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	07/25/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	40
File size:	342 KB

About the Author

Nick Lacey is a freelance film and media teacher. He has worked for a number of media organisations, including Times Newspapers, EMAP and Yorkshire Television.

Roy Stafford is a freelance lecturer and writer based in West Yorkshire, working in film education with independent cinemas. He is co-author, with Gill Branston, of The Media Student's Book (4th edn., 2006) and has produced a wide range of film materials for teachers and students.
NICK LACEY is the Curriculum Leader of Film and Media Studies at Benton Park School in West Yorkshire, UK.
ROY STAFFORD is a freelance lecturer and writer based in West Yorkshire, working in film education with independent cinemas. He is co-author, with Gill Branston, of The Media Student's Book (Routledge, 4th edition 2006) and has produced a wide range of film materials for teachers and students.

Table of Contents

Teachers' notes:
1. Film as Industry and Institution
2. New Hollywood in the 1970s
3. The High Concept Model – as a means of analysing contemporary Hollywood films
4. The High Concept and Industry Practices
5. Distribution and exhibition
Exercise: 'Simulating Hollywood'
Questions for discussion or essays
Appendix 1: Summer 2000 and the majors' slates
Appendix 2: The cost of making a Hollywood movie
Bibliography