MA in Hollywood Studies launched

The recent strike by Hollywood screenwriters threw some important questions into relief: who does the entertainment industry really depend upon to keep its business going? Where is the money made now that DVD profits far outstrip box-office revenues? What impact does Hollywood have on regions of the world when its global operations are suddenly fused? These questions, among others, are central to a new MA in Hollywood Studies being launched by The University of Nottingham in 2008-09 - the first of its kind in the UK. The MA will consider how exactly Hollywood operates as an industry and creative system, and will examine the role of Hollywood in history and everyday life, posing two essential questions: 'what is Hollywood?' and 'where is Hollywood?' The MA locates film, television, and other screen media within the institutional, economic and cultural frameworks of global Hollywood. The course, the only one of its kind in Britain, will instruct students in academic and industrial discourses in film and television studies, with a particular emphasis on globally dominant Hollywood institutions and practices and their local situation in North America, Europe, Asia and elsewhere. This new MA course seeks to understand the complexities of Hollywood in both the production and consumption of its wares. Students will be based in the Institute of Film and Television Studies, located within the School of American and Canadian Studies, which achieved a 5* rating in the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise.