Home in Hollywood: The Imaginary Geography of Cinema

by Elisabeth Bronfen

Book Overview

Who can forget Dorothy's quest for the great and powerful Oz as she tried to return to her beloved Kansas? She thought she needed a wizard's magic, only to discover that home--and the power to get there--had been with her all along. This engaging and provocative book proposes that Hollywood has created an imaginary cinematic geography filled with people and places we recognize and to which we are irresistibly drawn. Each viewing of a film stirs, in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231121776
• ISBN13: 9780231121774
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher