In "Hollywood Time", one of the most influential figures in the study of classical Hollywood cinema examines various paradigms for reading Hollywood and its cinema. In chapters on the great age of melodrama, the era of 'New Hollywood', post-classical Hollywood, and the current culture of digital Hollywood, Thomas Elsaesser considers the applicability of classical film theory and alternatives to it. Bringing together some of Eslaesser's classic texts along with many of his never-before-published essays, this volume explores a broad range of topics from cinephilia and auteurs - Nicholas Ray, Sam Fuller, Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, among others - to melodrama, digital cinema, and even time-travel films.