Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2004
Abstract
Any effort to assess, analyze, or even describe “Hollywood” inevitably begins with a definitional dilemma. The term Hollywood refers to an actual place, of course—a community north of Los Angeles that emerged, nearly a century ago, as a primary base of operations for the burgeoning American film industry. But the industry involved far more than the Hollywood environs even then, and as it continued to develop, the meanings associated with the term Hollywood became increasingly complex and multivalent.
Recommended Citation
Perren, Alisa and Schatz, Thomas, "Hollywood" (2004). Communication Faculty Publications. 2.
https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/communication_facpub/2
Comments
Published in The Sage Handbook of Media Studies, (2004), pp. 495-515.