Topic: To what extent does your case challenge or support claims of Hollywood cinema entering a ‘new’ period in the 2000s?
Order Description
Essay 2 should address the question:
To what extent does your case challenge or support claims of Hollywood cinema entering a ‘new’ period in the 2000s?
As a means of focus, your essay should select a case that enables you to examine in detail one of the following sites.
1) DVD
2) Paratexts and/or promotion
3) Computer-generated imagery
4) Web-based cinema
5) A site of your choice that you must agree with Paul Grainge
You should analyze your case in terms of one or more (but not all!) of the following contexts:
Industrial or production contexts
Distribution contexts
Exhibition contexts
Textual contexts (e.g. positions within narrative/representational/genre systems)