托马斯•沙兹（Thomas Schatz），美国德克萨斯大学传播学教授，主要研究领域为好莱坞电影和制片厂制度。作为知名电影评论人，著有：《旧好莱坞•新好莱坞：仪式、艺术与工业》《繁荣与衰败：1940年代的美国电影》《体系的特质：制片厂时代的好莱坞电影制作》《好莱坞电影类型》等。他还参与了多部电影及电视纪录片的创作，如美国公共电视台的纪录片系列《美国电影》等。

In this unprecedented, all-encompassing, and thoroughly entertaining account of the movie business, acclaimed writer Edward Jay Epstein reveals the real magic behind moviemaking: how the studios make their money. Epstein shows that in Hollywood, the only art that matters is the art of the deal: Major films turn huge profits not from the movies themselves but through myriad oth...(展开全部)

The central thesis of this book is that a genre approach provides the most effective means for understanding, analyzing and appreciating the Hollywood cinema. Taking into account not only the formal and aesthetic aspects of feature filmmaking, but various other cultural aspects as well, the genre approach treats movie production as a dynamic process of exchange between the film...(展开全部)

During the 30's and 40's, Hollywood produced a genre of madcap comedies that emphasized reuniting the central couple after divorce or separation. And the female protagonists were strong, independent, and sophisticated. Here, Stanley Cavell examines seven of those classic movies for their cinematic techniques, and for such varies themes as feminism, liberty and interdependence. ...(展开全部)

The pioneering anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner combines her trademark ethnographic expertise with critical film interpretation to explore the independent film scene in New York and Los Angeles since the late 1980s. Not Hollywood is both a study of the lived experience of that scene and a critical examination of America as seen through the lenses of independent filmmakers. Based...(展开全部)

In this book, the author offers an analysis of Hollywood's storytelling techniques and how they are used to make complex, easily comprehensible, entertaining films. She also takes on the myth that modern Hollywood films are based on a narrative system radically different from the one in use during the golden age of the studio system. Drawing on a wide range of films from the 19...(展开全部)

安德鲁·莫顿（Andrew Morton） 知名传记作家。他撰写过多部名人传记，其中《戴安娜：她的真实故事》蝉联畅销书榜58周，被翻译为35种语言，并引发了电影、纪录片和王室评论的热潮。此后，莫顿继续撰写了麦当娜、贝克汉姆与维多利亚、汤姆·克鲁斯、安吉丽娜·朱莉等众多名人的传记，并荣登《星期日泰晤士报》和《纽约时报》上畅销书榜。