The Hollywood Studio System

(5 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This module will develop students understating of how silent-era, classical and post-classical Hollywood has developed as an industry, balancing the twin demands of creativity and commerce. The module will encourage students to analyse how Hollywood works as an industry, the kind of films it produces, and the ways in which they are consumed by domestic and global audiences. Students will engage with a variety of Hollywood cinema and be introduced to a range of theories and approaches for analysing how they are produced and consumed.