Movies About the Movies

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.

המשפט הראשון: When David O. Selznick defended A Star Is Born to the Hays Office during production, he wrote that the film would function as "a warning to girls of how strong the chances are against them."

שנה

1997

שפה

English

הוצאה

University Press of Kentucky

מהדורות

1

עמודים

264

ISBN

9780813109381

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata