Table of Contents:
  • 9/11 : before and after / Christian W. Thomsen
  • On the cutting edge : new visual languages in film-editing conventions in Hollywood / Karen A. Ritzenhoff
  • The digital cinema dilemma : obstacles to digitalizing the movie screens / Kay Hoffmann
  • The digital world picture / Jean-Pierre Geuens
  • Making movies is like making cars, only more fun / Vinzenz Hediger
  • The transnationalization of Hollywood / Frederick Wasser
  • Negotiations of genre and gender in contemporary Hollywood film / Claudia Liebrand
  • Deep impact : emotion and performativity in contemporary blockbuster cinema / Robert Blanchet
  • Body snatchers : recycling in Hollywood / Volker Pietsch
  • Mixed realities : from HAL 9000 to The matrix--computers and androids in contemporary science-fiction movies / Christian W. Thomsen
  • The recycling of myths in Hollywood science-fiction films, exemplified by Roland Emmerich's Stargate (1994), Luc Besson's The fifth element (1997) and Andrew Niccol's S1mOne (2002) / Christian W. Thomsen
  • Pentagon pictures : how Hollywood has its scripts censored by Washington / Gudula Simone Moritz
  • Hollywood's new brand : independent film production / Angela Krewani
  • Hyperkinetic images : Hollywood and computer games / Randi Gunzenh?user
  • Architecture and film : the reality play / Dietmar E. Fröhlich
  • Cinema architecture in the United States / Celeste M. Williams
  • Authentic replicas, or just like a Hollywood movie : notes on the cinematized Las Vegas strip / Pamela C. Scorzin.