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Home in Hollywood : The Imaginary Geography of Cinema / Elisabeth Bronfen.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231121767
  • 9780231529426
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1994 .B71913 2004eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue. Out of the Library: Seven -- Introduction. Not Master in His Own House -- 1. Uncanny Appropriations: Rebecca -- 2. Home-There's No Place Like It: The Wizard of Oz -- 3. Seduction of Departing: The Searchers -- 4. Hybrid Home: Lone Star -- 5. The Enigma of Homecoming: Secret Beyond the Door -- 6. Sustaining Dislocation: Imitation of Life -- 7. The Homeless Strike Back: Batman Returns -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Who can forget Dorothy's quest for the great and powerful Oz as she tried to return to her beloved Kansas? She thought she needed a wizard's magic, only to discover that home-and the power to get there-had been with her all along. 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, and the comfort of returning to films like familiar haunts is at the core of our nostalgic desire. Leading us on a journey through American film, Elisabeth Bronfen examines the different ways home is constructed in the development of cinematic narrative. Each chapter includes a close reading of such classic films as Fleming's The Wizard of Oz, Sirk's Imitation of Life, Burton's Batman Returns, Hitchcock's Rebecca, Ford's The Searchers, and Sayles's Lone Star.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue. Out of the Library: Seven -- Introduction. Not Master in His Own House -- 1. Uncanny Appropriations: Rebecca -- 2. Home-There's No Place Like It: The Wizard of Oz -- 3. Seduction of Departing: The Searchers -- 4. Hybrid Home: Lone Star -- 5. The Enigma of Homecoming: Secret Beyond the Door -- 6. Sustaining Dislocation: Imitation of Life -- 7. The Homeless Strike Back: Batman Returns -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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Who can forget Dorothy's quest for the great and powerful Oz as she tried to return to her beloved Kansas? She thought she needed a wizard's magic, only to discover that home-and the power to get there-had been with her all along. 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, and the comfort of returning to films like familiar haunts is at the core of our nostalgic desire. Leading us on a journey through American film, Elisabeth Bronfen examines the different ways home is constructed in the development of cinematic narrative. Each chapter includes a close reading of such classic films as Fleming's The Wizard of Oz, Sirk's Imitation of Life, Burton's Batman Returns, Hitchcock's Rebecca, Ford's The Searchers, and Sayles's Lone Star.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)