Home In Hollywood: The Imaginary Geography Of Cinema

bronfen_FM 7/23/04 11:59 AM Page i Home in Hollywood FILM AND CULTURE / John Belton, General Editor bronfen_FM 7/23/04 11:59 AM Page ii FILM AND CULTURE A series of Columbia University Press John Belton, General Editor What Made Pistachio Nuts? Early Sound Comedy and the Vaudeville Aesthetic Special Effects: Still in Search of Wonder HENRY JENKINS Designing Women: Cinema, Art Deco, and the Female Form Showstoppers: Busby Berkeley and the Tradition of Spectacle MARTIN RUBIN Projections of War: Hollywood, American Culture, and World War II MICHELE PIERSON LUCY FISCHER Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture THOMAS DOHERT Y THOMAS DOHERT Y Katharine Hepburn: Star as Feminist Laughing Screaming: Modern Hollywood Horror and Comedy ANDREW BRIT TON WILLIAM PAUL Laughing Hysterically: American Screen Comedy of the 1950s ED SIKOV Primitive Passions: Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, and Contemporary Chinese Cinema REY CHOW The Cinema of Max Ophuls: Magisterial Vision and the Figure of Woman SUSAN M. WHITE Black Women as Cultural Readers JACQUELINE BOBO Picturing Japaneseness: Monumental Style, National Identity, Japanese Film DARRELL WILLIAM DAVIS Attack of the Leading Ladies: Gender, Sexuality, and Spectatorship in Classic Horror Cinema RHONA J. BERENSTEIN This Mad Masquerade: Stardom and Masculinity in the Jazz Age GAYLYN STUDL AR Sexual Politics and Narrative Film: Hollywood and Beyond ROBIN WOOD Masculine Interests: Homoerotics in Hollywood Film ROBERT L ANG Silent Film Sound RICK ALTMAN The Sounds of Commerce: Marketing Popular Film Music JEFF SMITH Orson Welles, Shakespeare, and Popular Culture MICHAEL ANDEREGG Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930–1934 THOMAS DOHERT Y Sound Technology and the American Cinema: Perception, Representation, Modernity JAMES L ASTRA Melodrama and Modernity: Early Sensational Cinema and Its Contexts BEN SINGER Wondrous Difference: Cinema, Anthropology, and Turn-of-the-Century Visual Culture ALISON GRIFFITHS Hearst Over Hollywood: Power, Passion, and Propaganda in the Movies LOUIS PIZZITOL A bronfen_FM 7/23/04 11:59 AM Page iii Elisabeth Bronfen Home in Hollywood The Imaginary Geography of Cinema COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS / NEW YORK bronfen_FM 7/23/04 11:59 AM Page iv Columbia University Press Publishers Since 1893 New York Chichester, West Sussex Copyright © 200