Stardust Monuments: The Saving and Selling of Hollywood (Interfaces: Studies in Visual Culture)

Alison Trope

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 161168045X ISBN 13: 9781611680454

Publisher: Dartmouth College Press, 2012

Stardust Monuments Hollywood is placeless, timeless, and iconic, a key fabricator and forger of American cultural myths and stories. How, then, will the history of Hollywood be written? Full description

Review:

"Stardust Monuments is a much-needed contribution to he growing literature on firm and cultural institutions, including work on film and cultural institutions, including work on film museums, film education, and fan culture. The chapters on theme parks, stores, and home entertainment are particularly rich with carefully observed detail."--Moving Image

Moving Image"

Stardust Monuments is a much-needed contribution to he growing literature on firm and cultural institutions, including work on film and cultural institutions, including work on film museums, film education, and fan culture. The chapters on theme parks, stores, and home entertainment are particularly rich with carefully observed detail. "Moving Image""

About the Author:

ALISON TROPE is clinical associate professor at the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism at the University of Southern California.