Twenty-First-Century Hollywood

Neil Archer is a lecturer in film at Keele University. He is the author of The Road Movie: In Search of Meaning (Wallflower, 2016), Hot Fuzz (Auteur, 2015), and The Bourne Ultimatum (Auteur, 2012).

• Acknowledgements Introduction: Rebooted?1. Why Can’t Hollywood Rely on Flying Saucers? Industry, Audience and Franchise Logic2. What Does Hollywood Really Like About Comic Books? Structure and Style in Marvel’s Cinematic Universe3. Is Hollywood Saving the World, or Is the World Saving Hollywood? Industrial Authorship and Experimental Blockbusters4. Why Are the Most Grown-Up Films Made for Children? Ways of Playing in the Family FilmFilmographyBibliographyIndex

Surveying the industrial landscape and the dominant formal-aesthetic issues at stake, Twenty-First-Century Hollywood offers an insightful and engaging synthesis of many of the most important approaches to contemporary Hollywood. Archer's close readings and case studies persuasively demonstrate how forces such as marketing, synergy, and franchising have shaped many recent Hollywood films.