Description:
<P>"Hollywood" as a concept applies variously to a particular film style, a factory-based mode of film production, a cartel of powerful media institutions, and a national (and increasingly global) "way of seeing." A complex social, cultural, and industrial phenomenon, Hollywood is arguably the single most important site of cultural production over the past century.<br> <br> This collection brings together journal articles, published essays, book chapters, and excerpts, which explore Hollywood as a social, economic, industrial, aesthetic, and political force, and as a complex historical entity.</P>