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Hollywood Aesthetic: Pleasure in American Cinema
Projections, 2017In this reply to four commentaries on my book, Hollywood Aesthetic: Pleasure in American Cinema, I address several conceptual and methodological issues raised by the respondents.
Todd Berliner
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2022
Hollywood: The Oral History covers the history of Hollywood from the Silent era up to the 21st century. What makes this book unique from any other survey of Hollywood's history is that it is the history of an art form through the words of those people who created it – from Harold Lloyd to Katharine Hepburn to Warren Beatty to Jane Fonda and ...
Jeanine Basinger, Sam Wasson
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Hollywood: The Oral History covers the history of Hollywood from the Silent era up to the 21st century. What makes this book unique from any other survey of Hollywood's history is that it is the history of an art form through the words of those people who created it – from Harold Lloyd to Katharine Hepburn to Warren Beatty to Jane Fonda and ...
Jeanine Basinger, Sam Wasson
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2004
Any effort to assess, analyze, or even describe “Hollywood†inevitably begins with a definitional dilemma. The term Hollywood refers to an actual place, of course—a community north of Los Angeles that emerged, nearly a century ago, as a primary base of operations for the burgeoning American film industry.
Perren, Alisa, Schatz, Thomas
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Any effort to assess, analyze, or even describe “Hollywood†inevitably begins with a definitional dilemma. The term Hollywood refers to an actual place, of course—a community north of Los Angeles that emerged, nearly a century ago, as a primary base of operations for the burgeoning American film industry.
Perren, Alisa, Schatz, Thomas
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2018
The backstudio picture, or movie about filmmaking, is a genre as old and as recent as commercial filmmaking itself. This genre’s longevity is due to its function in branding filmmaking with the mystique of Hollywood. As the backstudio picture depicts it, Hollywood is simultaneously (1) an actual locale in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, (2) a ...
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The backstudio picture, or movie about filmmaking, is a genre as old and as recent as commercial filmmaking itself. This genre’s longevity is due to its function in branding filmmaking with the mystique of Hollywood. As the backstudio picture depicts it, Hollywood is simultaneously (1) an actual locale in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, (2) a ...
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Hollywood Transgressor or Hollywood Transvestite?
2017This chapter examines the discursive circulation of Kathryn Bigelow's 2008 film The Hurt Locker and the debates that broke out about the suppression of gender in her 2010 Academy Award acceptance speech. It considers how the success of The Hurt Locker and the varied responses provoked by Bigelow's receipt of the Best Director Oscar has renewed ...
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2017
This chapter explores one of the ironies that color the history of the American film industry—the fact that its most glorious years, in terms of profitability, were those during which the entire nation struggled desperately to pull itself out of the depths of the Great Depression.
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This chapter explores one of the ironies that color the history of the American film industry—the fact that its most glorious years, in terms of profitability, were those during which the entire nation struggled desperately to pull itself out of the depths of the Great Depression.
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North Dakota Quarterly
Abstract Igor Stravinsky, commissioned composer of the ballet “The Card Party” and a new father figure for Balanchine, appears in New York. Soon Balanchine is hired to make choreography for movie mogul Samuel Goldwyn’s Goldwyn Follies; he goes to Hollywood with a group of his dancers from the American Ballet.
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Abstract Igor Stravinsky, commissioned composer of the ballet “The Card Party” and a new father figure for Balanchine, appears in New York. Soon Balanchine is hired to make choreography for movie mogul Samuel Goldwyn’s Goldwyn Follies; he goes to Hollywood with a group of his dancers from the American Ballet.
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