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Home in Hollywood: The Imaginary Geography of Cinema
Elisabeth Bronfen
Home in Hollywood: The Imaginary Geography of Cinema
Elisabeth Bronfen
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.
352 pages, Illustrations
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | October 15, 2004 |
ISBN13 | 9780231121767 |
Publishers | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 352 |
Dimensions | 164 × 238 × 20 mm · 544 g |
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