Stardust Monuments: The Saving and Selling of Hollywood (Interfaces: Studies in Visual Culture) - Softcover

Trope, Alison

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1611680468 ISBN 13: 9781611680461

Verlag: Dartmouth College Press, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

Stardust Monuments spotlights the enduring efforts to memorialize and canonize the history and meaning of Hollywood and American film culture. In this engaging analysis, Alison Trope explores the tensions between art and commerce as they intersect in a range of nonprofit and for-profit institutions and products. An insightful tour of Hollywood’s past, present, and future, Stardust Monuments examines the establishment of film libraries and museums beginning in the mid 1930s, the many failed attempts to open a Hollywood museum ranging from the 1960s to today, and the more successful recent corporate efforts to use Hollywood’s past in theme restaurants and parks, classic movie channels, and DVD boxed sets. This fascinating narrative details the ongoing struggle to champion and codify Hollywood’s legacy, a struggle engaged in by Hollywood stars and corporate executives, as well as memorabilia collectors and users of IMDb.

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ALISON TROPE is clinical associate professor at the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism at the University of Southern California.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Dartmouth College Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1611680468
• ISBN 13: 9781611680461
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 248
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