Movies About the Movies: Hollywood Reflected
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0813120187
ISBN 13
9780813120188
Category
Film Criticism
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Publication Year
1997
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky, United States
Pages
254
Subject
Motion picture industry in motion pictures.
Description
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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