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

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Trope, Alison

 
9781611680461: Stardust Monuments: The Saving and Selling of Hollywood (Interfaces: Studies in Visual Culture)
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ISBN 10: 1611680468 ISBN 13: 9781611680461
Publisher: Dartmouth College Press, 2012

Synopsis

Stardust Monuments spotlights the enduring efforts to memorialize and canonize the history and meaning of Hollywood and American film culture. In this engaging analysis, Alison Trope explores the tensions between art and commerce as they intersect in a range of nonprofit and for-profit institutions and products. An insightful tour of Hollywood's past, present, and future, Stardust Monuments examines the establishment of film libraries and museums beginning in the mid 1930s, the many failed attempts to open a Hollywood museum ranging from the 1960s to today, and the more successful recent corporate efforts to use Hollywood's past in theme restaurants and parks, classic movie channels, and DVD boxed sets. This fascinating narrative details the ongoing struggle to champion and codify Hollywood's legacy, a struggle engaged in by Hollywood stars and corporate executives, as well as memorabilia collectors and users of IMDb.

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About the Author

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

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Publisher
Dartmouth College Press
Publication date
2012
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1611680468
ISBN 13 
9781611680461
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
256

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