Home in Hollywood - The Imaginary Geography of Cinema

Informationen zum Autor Elisabeth Bronfen Klappentext 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 of our nostalgic desire. Leading us on a journey through American film! Elisabeth Bronfen examines the different ways home is constructed in the development of cinematic narrative. Each chapter includes a close reading of such classic films as Fleming's The Wizard of Oz! Sirk's Imitation of Life! Burton's Batman Returns! Hitchcock's Rebecca! Ford's The Searchers! and Sayles's Lone Star. Zusammenfassung Examines the different ways home is constructed in cinematic narrative. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue--Out of the LibraryIntroduction: Not Master in His Own House1. Uncanny Appropriations2. Home--There's No Place Like It3. Seduction of Departing4. Hybrid Home5. The Enigma of Homecoming6. Sustaining Dislocation

Product details

• Authors: Elisabeth Bronfen, Bronfen Elisabeth
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.11.2004
• EAN: 9780231121774
• ISBN: 978-0-231-12177-4
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 228 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Film Culture; Film Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, Film, TV & radio, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism