Stardust monuments : the saving and selling of Hollywood /
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| Author / Creator: | Trope, Alison. |
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| Imprint: | Hanover, N.H. : Dartmouth College Press, ©2011. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (248 pages) : illustrations. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Interfaces: studies in visual culture Interfaces, studies in visual culture. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11146819 |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1611681952 9781611681956 9781611680454 161168045X 9781611680461 1611680468 1280010630 9781280010637 9786613512321 661351232X |