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.

• Acknowledgments1. Introduction: American Film in the Digital Age2. 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 Movies4. Sex and Censorship since Monicagate: Whither the Artistic "X"?5. Genre Goes Pastiche: Genre in Contemporary Hollywood6. Navigating the Contemporary Hollywood Business Model: Directors in the Digital Age7. 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 BeyondIndex

In this insightful, well-written volume Sickels (Whitman College) goes behind the scenes of American film toprovide 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.

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.

• Acknowledgments1. Introduction: American Film in the Digital Age2. 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 Movies4. Sex and Censorship since Monicagate: Whither the Artistic "X"?5. Genre Goes Pastiche: Genre in Contemporary Hollywood6. Navigating the Contemporary Hollywood Business Model: Directors in the Digital Age7. 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 BeyondIndex

In this insightful, well-written volume Sickels (Whitman College) goes behind the scenes of American film toprovide 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.

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.

• Acknowledgments1. Introduction: American Film in the Digital Age2. 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 Movies4. Sex and Censorship since Monicagate: Whither the Artistic "X"?5. Genre Goes Pastiche: Genre in Contemporary Hollywood6. Navigating the Contemporary Hollywood Business Model: Directors in the Digital Age7. 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 BeyondIndex

In this insightful, well-written volume Sickels (Whitman College) goes behind the scenes of American film toprovide 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.