Hollywood, the dream factory : an anthropologist looks at the movie-makers /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Powdermaker, Hortense, 1903-1970 (Author)
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1950.
Series:Business and legal aspects of sports and entertainment.
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Online Access:HeinOnline Business and Legal Aspects of Sports and Entertainment
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Table of Contents:
  • Why an anthropologist studied Hollywood
  • Habitat and people, mythical and real
  • Mass production of dreams
  • Taboos
  • Front office
  • Men who play God
  • Lesser gods, but colossal
  • The scribes
  • Assembling the script
  • The answers
  • Directors
  • Acting, in Hollywood
  • Stars
  • Actors are people
  • Emerging from magic
  • Hollywood and the U.S.A.