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Reynolds, Matthew.

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Soft focus: Glamour and the Hollywood Redevelopment Project (California).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Soft focus: Glamour and the Hollywood Redevelopment Project (California)./
Author:	Reynolds, Matthew.
Description:	275 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-08, Section: A, page: 2808.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-08A.
Subject:	Cinema. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3142313
ISBN:	0496892940

Soft focus: Glamour and the Hollywood Redevelopment Project (California).
Reynolds, Matthew.

Soft focus: Glamour and the Hollywood Redevelopment Project (California). - 275 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-08, Section: A, page: 2808.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Rochester, 2004.

This dissertation project undertakes a critical examination of the Hollywood Redevelopment Project (or H.R.P.). The H.R.P. is a thirty-year, billion-dollar effort to revitalize Hollywood, Ca. Using the recent renovation of Times Square in New York City as a model, Hollywood's redevelopment seeks to create a tourist friendly environment that capitalizes on the city's history as the home of the American film industry. But for the past three decades, Hollywood has been as synonymous with porn theaters, sex shops, prostitution, and homelessness as it has with movies and entertainment. As a result, Hollywood's rebirth raises a number of problematic and disconcerting issues that concern the complicated intersection between cinema and the city. What expectation do tourists have when they visit Hollywood? Where and how was that expectation produced? Who will benefit from the Hollywood Redevelopment Project? And who will be left out?

ISBN: 0496892940Subjects--Topical Terms:

854529
Cinema.

Soft focus: Glamour and the Hollywood Redevelopment Project (California).
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520 $a This dissertation is an interdisciplinary project that uses film history and theory, urban studies, and cultural studies. It investigates the manner in which artistic and visual media intersect with social, civic, and commercial forces in reconstructing Hollywood. The first part of this project explores how urban redevelopment is attempting to capitalize on early perceptions of the city as a space and place of "glamour." It explores the history of this term and its connotations of sexuality, artifice, and consumerism. It argues that the glamour of Hollywood's redevelopment potentially conceals social displacements taking place there.
520 $a The second part of the project explores the material effects of urban redevelopment. It discusses the growing popularity of "urban entertainment centers" as tools to reinvigorate the blighted downtown regions of major metropolitan areas like New York City, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. These spectacular retail complexes combine shopping and moviegoing to lure tourists and residents back to the city center, and their construction plays an important role in the redevelopment of Hollywood. The project concludes by returning to a discussion of glamour, arguing that glamour becomes an affect of the built environment of a revitalized Hollywood and a metaphor for the dynamics of displacement taking place within the city.
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