Twenty-First-Century Hollywood: Rebooting the System, by Neil Archer

Hollywood has always been a loaded term, one with multiple meanings including studio system, standardised form, global industry, and arguably national cinema. It connotes film stars directors, genres, questions of equity representation. is an easy popular scapegoat for many the issues facing contemporary culture. Though demonstrably most prevalent (and therefore widely accessible) cinema in parts globe, critically approaching increasingly difficult endeavour myriad reasons, chief which its vastness. Programming at American multiplexes continues to be dominated by mid-to-high-budget films, meaning that audiences seeking international or independent works must often turn elsewhere.