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Home in Hollywood : the imaginary geography of cinema / Elisabeth Bronfen.
LIBRA PN1994 .B71913 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bronfen, Elisabeth.
- Series:
- Film and culture
- Standardized Title:
- Heimweh. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2004]
- Summary:
- Leading us on a journey through familiar twentieth-century American films, 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. The comfort of returning to films like familiar haunts is at the core of our nostalgic desire. Elisabeth Bronfen examines the different ways home is constructed in the development of cinematic narrative, offering close readings of crucial scenes in classic films.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [297]-303) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0231121768
- 0231121776
- OCLC:
- 54670073
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