Home in Hollywood

Home in Hollywood
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 321
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ISBN-10 : 9780231121767
ISBN-13 : 0231121768
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Home in Hollywood by : Elisabeth Bronfen

Download or read book Home in Hollywood written by Elisabeth Bronfen and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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