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Home in Hollywood: The Imaginary Geography of Cinema
Elisabeth Bronfen
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Description for Home in Hollywood: The Imaginary Geography of Cinema
Paperback. Examines the different ways home is constructed in cinematic narrative. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 544.
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 a very real and charismatic way, feelings of home, and the comfort of returning to films like familiar haunts is at the core ... Read more
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 a very real and charismatic way, feelings of home, and the comfort of returning to films like familiar haunts is at the core ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Weight
544 g
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231121774
SKU
V9780231121774
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About Elisabeth Bronfen
Elisabeth Bronfen is professor of English at the University of Zurich. She is the author, most recently, of The Knotted Subject: Hysteria and Its Discontents and the coeditor of Feminist Consequences: Theory for a New Century (Columbia).
Reviews for Home in Hollywood: The Imaginary Geography of Cinema
It is a tribute to the brilliance and ingenuity of Elisabeth Bronfen... Home in Hollywood is a significant achievement.
Sam B. Girgus American Studies
Sam B. Girgus American Studies