Format:
1 Online-Ressource (265 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0813148871
,
9780813148878
Content:
Hundreds of Hollywood-on-Hollywood movies can be found throughout the history of American cinema, from the days of silents to the present. They include films from genres as far ranging as musical, film noir, melodrama, comedy, and action-adventure. Such movies seduce us with the promise of revealing the reality behind the camera. But, as part of the very industry they supposedly critique, they cannot take us behind the scenes in any true sense. Through close analysis of fifteen critically acclaimed films, Christopher Ames reveals how the idea of Hollywood is constructed and constructs itself
Content:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Hollywood Stories; 1. Cautionary Tales; What Price Hollywood? (1932); A Star Is Born (1937); The Star (1952); 2. Singin' on the Screen; Singin' in the Rain (1952); A Star Is Born (1954); 3. Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella; Sullivan's Travels (1941); Pennies from Heaven (1981); 4. Screen Passages; The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985); Last Action Hero (1993); 5. No Business Like; Stand-In (1937); The Bad and the Beautiful (1952); 6. Picturing Writers; Boy Meets Girl (1938); In a Lonely Place (1950); 7. Offing the Writer
Content:
Sunset Boulevard (1950)The Player (1992); Epilogue: California Dreams; Appendix: Film and Videotape Availability; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813120188
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Ames, Christopher Movies About the Movies : Hollywood Reflected Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, ©2015 ISBN 9780813120188
Language:
English
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