CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
About the companion website
List of illustrations in the book
List of illustrations on the website
List of film clips on the website
Introduction: The Backstudio Picture
Chapter 1. Self-Reflexive Hollywood
Chapter 2. Elusive Hollywood
Chapter 3. Movie-Struck Hollywood
Chapter 4. Monstrous Hollywood
Chapter 5. Masculine Hollywood
Chapter 6. Historical Hollywood
Chapter 7. Virtual Hollywood
Conclusion
Works Cited
Filmography
Index
Steven Cohan is Dean's Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Film and Screen Studies in the Department of English at Syracuse University.
"Steven Cohan has written an outstanding and extremely readable
book that strikingly and convincingly establishes the 'backstudio
film' as one of Hollywood's most pervasive, variegated, and
essential genres. Insightful in developing larger themes and issues
relating American filmmaking as well as in providing concise, rich
readings of several major and secondary American films, Hollywood
by Hollywood is an original and important study." --Alan Nadel,
author of
Containment Culture and Demographic Angst: Cultural Narratives and
American Films of the 1950s
"Characterized by extensive archival research and compelling
analyses of well-known as well as rare films, Cohan's book offers
masterful scholarship on the back-studio picture over decades of
Hollywood history. His innovative and lively account of Hollywood's
longstanding tendency to make movies about itself explores the
implications such films have for studies of industry history,
stardom, and gender. This book is sure to become a gold standard in
and beyond
the field." --Barbara Klinger, Provost Professor Emerita, The Media
School, Indiana University
"This pioneering book explores the backstudio picture as a
long-standing genre in its own right. Considering an impressive
array of diverse films, Cohan defines Hollywoodâs depiction of
itself as a dream factory, a ruthless business, a dispersed
physical space, and finally a branded logo, while deftly
historicizing these iterations in the context of the industryâs
structural transformations and gendered power dynamics. Cohan
provides an important
theoretical reevaluation of a previously understudied topic."
--Merrill Schleier, University of the Pacific
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