Movies about the Movies-Pa

by Christopher Ames

Book Overview

Hundreds of Hollywood-on-Hollywood movies can be found throughout the history of American cinema, from the days of silents to the present. They include films from genres as far ranging as musical, film noir, melodrama, comedy, and action-adventure. Such movies seduce us with the promise of revealing the reality behind the camera. But, as part of the very industry they supposedly critique, they cannot take us behind the scenes in any true sense...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813109388
• ISBN13: 9780813109381
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.9"