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This book traces the circulation in Britain of three Hollywood films--Basic Instinct, Bram Stokers Dracula and Natural Born Killers --from marketing and critical reception to consumption in cinemas and on video. It draws on economic discursiveMoreThis book traces the circulation in Britain of three Hollywood films--Basic Instinct, Bram Stokers Dracula and Natural Born Killers --from marketing and critical reception to consumption in cinemas and on video. It draws on economic discursive contexts and original audience research to trace how meanings, pleasures, and uses are derived from popular film. A significant intervention into methodological debates in film studies and a timely investigation of film culture, it focuses on key questions about genre, taste, sexual pleasure and screen violence. Hollywood Hype and Audiences: Selling and Watching Popular Film in the 1990s by Thomas Austin
