Film As Product in Contemporary Hollywood

Nick Lacey is a freelance film and media teacher. He has worked for a number of media organisations, including Times Newspapers, EMAP and Yorkshire Television.Roy Stafford is a freelance lecturer and writer based in West Yorkshire, working in film education with independent cinemas. He is co-author, with Gill Branston, of The Media Student's Book (4th edn., 2006) and has produced a wide range of film materials for teachers and students.

• Teachers' notes: 1. Film as Industry and Institution 2. New Hollywood in the 1970s 3. The High Concept Model – as a means of analysing contemporary Hollywood films 4. The High Concept and Industry Practices 5. Distribution and exhibition Exercise: 'Simulating Hollywood' Questions for discussion or essays Appendix 1: Summer 2000 and the majors' slates Appendix 2: The cost of making a Hollywood movie Bibliography