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The backstudio picture is a long-lived genre. Its value, I have argued, arises from its function in defining what Hollywood signifies as a place, an industry, and a fantasy. For some filmmakers, a backstudio story has no doubt offered them a venue for settling scores or exploring cinematic creativity. But I have for the most part discounted the personal intentions of individuals throughout this book and instead have focused on the backstudio picture as a product turned out with great regularity from the silent era to the present day. The genre’s importance exceeds the commercial success or failure of individual backstudios at the box office, moreover, since it has been a cumulative phenomenon, the effect of numerous backstudios coming out in a single year time and time again. Viewed as a robust genre, the backstudio picture has worked to keep visible the centrality of Hollywood to American filmmaking....
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The backstudio picture is a long-lived genre.
Its value, I have argued, arises from its function in defining what Hollywood signifies as a place, an industry, and a fantasy.
For some filmmakers, a backstudio story has no doubt offered them a venue for settling scores or exploring cinematic creativity.
But I have for the most part discounted the personal intentions of individuals throughout this book and instead have focused on the backstudio picture as a product turned out with great regularity from the silent era to the present day.
The genre’s importance exceeds the commercial success or failure of individual backstudios at the box office, moreover, since it has been a cumulative phenomenon, the effect of numerous backstudios coming out in a single year time and time again.
Viewed as a robust genre, the backstudio picture has worked to keep visible the centrality of Hollywood to American filmmaking.

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