Movies about the Movies: Hollywood Reflected - Hardcover

Ames, Christopher

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813120187 ISBN 13: 9780813120188

Verlag: The University Press of Kentucky, 1997

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Book by Ames Christopher

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Hundreds of films belonging to the genre 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. This paradox - the simultaneous debunking and celebration of Hollywood - lies at the heart of the genre. Through close analysis of the best of these films. Ames reveals how the idea of Hollywood is constructed (and constructs itself), particularly through such moments of explicit self-referentiality as the movie-within-a-movie and scenes set in studios.

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• Verlag: The University Press of Kentucky
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0813120187
• ISBN 13: 9780813120188
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 263