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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.

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title Movies About the Movies Hollywood Reflected author Ames - photo 1
title:Movies About the Movies : Hollywood Reflected
author:Ames, Christopher.
publisher:University Press of Kentucky
isbn10 | asin:0813120187
print isbn13:9780813120188
ebook isbn13:9780813170244
language:English
subjectMotion picture industry in motion pictures.
publication date:1997
lcc:PN1995.9.M65A43 1997eb
ddc:791.43/657
subject:Motion picture industry in motion pictures.
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Movies about the Movies Hollywood Reflected
Christopher Ames
Page iv Publication of this volume was made possible in part by a grant - photo 2
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Publication of this volume was made possible in part by
a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Copyright 1997 by The University Press of Kentucky
Scholarly publisher for the Commonwealth,
serving Bellarmine College, Berea College, Centre
College of Kentucky, Eastern Kentucky University,
The Filson Club Historical Society, Georgetown College.
Kentucky Historical Society, Kentucky State University,
Morehead State University, Murray State University,
Northern Kentucky University, Transylvania University,
University of Kentucky, University of Louisville,
and Western Kentucky University.
All rights reserved.
Editorial and Sales Offices: The University Press of Kentucky
663 South Limestone Street, Lexington, Kentucky 40508-4008
01 00 99 98 97 5 4 3 2 1
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ames, Christopher, 1956
Movies about the movies : Hollywood reflected / Christopher Ames.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8131-2018-7 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. Motion picture industry in motion pictures. 1. Title.
PN1995.9.M65A43 1997
791.43'657-dc21 96-52946
This book is printed on acid-free recycled paper
meeting the requirements of the American National Standard
for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials.
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Manufactured in the United States of America
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The idea of Hollywood is the most original idea Hollywood ever hadthe only one that it ever made up by itself.... In its impact on the world, it's the most powerful idea it ever had.
Richard Schickel (Hollywood on Hollywood, American Movie Classics documentary, 1993)
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Contents
Acknowledgments
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Introduction: Hollywood Stories
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1. Cautionary Tales
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What Price Hollywood? (1932)
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A Star Is Born (1937)
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The Star (1952)
2. Singin' On the Screen
52
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Singin' in the Rain (1952)
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A Star Is Born (1954)
3. Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella
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Sullivan's Travels (1941)
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Pennies from Heaven (1981)
4. Screen Passages
108
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The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
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Last Action Hero (1993)
5. No Business Like
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Stand-In (1937)
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The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
6. Picturing Writers
164
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Boy Meets Girl (1938)
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In a Lonely Place (1950)
7. Offing the Writer
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