TAILIEUCHUNG - Hollywood: The Dream Factory An Anthropologist Looks at the Movie Makers

Bollywood heroines have mostly been homely, content to stay happily ever after in the institution of marriage even if educated and keen to carve and identity of one‟s own. Where are the women building careers and working professionally? They have been almost silenced. Shahla Raza (2003) talks about how Hindi cinema in the seventies had women in different working roles (Jaya Bachchan as a knife sharpener in 'Zanjeer' and a singer in 'Abhimaan', Hema Malini as a village tonga (horse carriage) driver in 'Sholay' and the general manager of a company in 'Trishul', Rakhee as corporate secretary in. | HOLLYWOOD DREAM FACTORY - Hortense Powdermaker - Powdermaker Web Page Page 1 of 233 Hortense Powdermaker Hollywood The Dream Factory An Anthropologist Looks at the Movie Makers London Secker Warburg 1951 HOLLYWOOD DREAM FACTORY - Hortense Powdermaker - Page 2 of 233 Hollywood The Dream Factory Table of Contents Introduction Chapter 1 - Habitat and People Mythical and Real Chapter 2 - Mass Production of Dream Chapter 3 - Taboos Chapter 4 - Front Office Chapter 5 -Men Who Play God Chapter 6 - Lesser Gods but Colossal Chapter 7 -The Scribes Chapter 8 - Assembling the Script Chapter 9 - The Answers Chapter 10 - Directors Chapter 11 - Acting in Hollywood Chapter 12 - Stars Chapter 13 - Actors are People Chapter 14 - Emerging from Magic Chapter 15 - Hollywood and the . Index HOLLYWOOD DREAM FACTORY - Hortense Powdermaker - Page 3 of 233 page 124 A Review of Hollywood-The Dream Factory An Anthropologist Looks at the MovieMakers. By Hortense Powdermaker. Boston Little Brown and Co. 1950. 342 pp. . Hollywood as Dream Factory just Nightmare to Femme Anthropologist -so runs the headline over the Variety review of this book. The Variety reviewer Herb Golden goes on to call it a dull and tedious tome remarks that it gets downright silly at times and says that 11 Most of it could have been put together by any hep Hollywood correspondent in two weeks. He dismisses the author as naive and the book as a gimmick. Mr. Golden no dope has hit the nail squarely on the head. The gimmick of course is anthropology and the anthropological method. The notion for some time suspect that previous investigation of a primitive tribe uniquely qualifies a person to study a sophisticated society or any part of it is now revealed to be absurd. The anthropological method here consists of little more than a series of inane analogies. Item The Stone Age Melanesians of the Southwest Pacific have a taboo on sex relations before a fishing expedition. For the same reason Hollywood has a taboo on .

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