Hollywood by Hollywood: The Backstudio Picture and the Mystique of Making Movies

by Steven Cohan

The backstudio picture, or the movie about movie-making, is a staple of Hollywood film production harking back to the silent era and extending to the present day. What gives backstudios their coherence as a distinctive genre, Steven Cohan argues in Hollywood by Hollywood, is their fascination with the mystique of Hollywood as a geographic place, a self-contained industry, and a fantasy of fame, leisure, sexual freedom, and modernity. Yet by the same...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190865776
• ISBN13: 9780190865771
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 9.9"