Hollywood in the 21st Century: A Revival

This book is primarily intended for film students, teachers, and viewers interested in the world of Hollywood cinema. In it, author Neil Archer aims to provide a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the films produced by Hollywood in the twenty-first century, exploring the underlying reasons behind their artistic forms.

In short, the book seeks to understand the aesthetic dimensions of these films within the economic, technical, and political frameworks that shaped them — and to discuss how film reviews or box-office statistics printed in books have become largely irrelevant today.
Thus, this book offers a theoretical, comprehensive, and critical perspective on Hollywood in the modern era.

Avoiding generalizations, the book defines a clear and specific scope, adopting an analytical approach to the films discussed. Archer delves into a detailed examination of several commercially successful films, sometimes highlighting the contradictions inherent in the nature of the very movies he describes — those produced in the past two decades.
The author seeks to clarify the relationship between emotion and violence, fantasy and reality. And if the book does not fully achieve that, he hopes at least that it acts in the same way as some of the films it critiques — embodying, through its own method, the analytical engagement it describes.