Stardust Monuments: The Saving and Selling of Hollywood

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31 Days of Oscar, 140, 149 1939 as annus mirabilis, 12–13 Abbott, John, 16–24, 19, 24, 196n2 ABC, 128; Sunday Night at the Movies, 127 Academy Awards, 25, 86, 140, 175; and Langlois, 32; legitimacy of, 157 Academy Foundation, 86 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), 55, 78, 80, 82, 86–87, 140, 149, 189; and motion picture museum, 49; proposed Cinema Center , 82; searchable database, 174–75 Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame Plaza, 105 Access Hollywood, 144, 185 A.C.M.E. (A Collector’s Magazine for Everyone ), 121 A&E, 157 Affleck, Ben, 160–61, 164 A Fool There Was, 12 AI, 153 Ain’t It Cool News (AICN), 185–86 Aitken, Harry, 198n24 Alexander, 162, 163 Alien, 105 Alien Resurrection, 149 All About Eve, 51 All Quiet on the Western Front, 12 Amazon, 181 Americana, Hollywood’s place in, 56 American Cinematheque, 210n102 American culture, and Hollywood culture , 45–46 American Film Institute (AFI), 79–80, 105, 140–41, 208n78; Lifetime Achievement Award, 105; Top 100 film list, 140 American Film Institute Showcase, 105 American Friend, 33 American in Paris, An, 146 American Movie Classics (AMC), 130, 132, 134, 136–37, 139, 141–45, 148–49, 154, 157, 178–79; commercials, 217n26; Movie Academy, 143; use of commercial advertising, 142; website, 177 American Museum of the Moving Image. See Museum of the Moving Image (MOMI, New York) American national identity, cinema and, 57 American origin of motion pictures, 18 American supremacy in media communications , 61 Anderson, Benedict, 5 Anderson, Christopher, 127 A Night Out, 12 Animaniacs, 116 animation, cinematic, 85 Anthony, Stephen, 71–75 Apple iTunes Store, 171 apps, 171 Archerd, Army, 98 Ariel (Little Mermaid), 116 Armageddon, 153, 155 art: cinema as, 8; federal appropriations for, 77; film as, 28; government promotion of, 45 art appreciation: use of term, 22 • 233 • Index Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations. I N D E X • 234 • artifacts, 214n40; authenticity of, 107, 111; exhibition of, 30–31, 33; Hollywood Museum collection, commercialization of, 77–82; legitimacy of, 107; and memories, 111; and merchandise, 117; museum as mausoleum of, 57; proposals for, after failure of Hollywood Museum project, 76–88. See also cinemabilia art-industry divide, 8 Artisan Home Entertainment, 160 Atelier Christian de Portzamparc, 87 A Trip to the Moon, 36 Austin Powers: Goldmember, 166 authenticity, 117, 122, 129, 151, 159–61, 167, 187; and DVDs, 164–65; of film artifacts , 107, 111; rhetoric of, 102; as selling point, 101–3 avant-garde cinema, 16–17 Aylward, Christine, 186 Babelsberg Studios (Germany), 104 Baker, Jimmie, 82 Baldwin, Alec, 135 Ball, Lucille, 64, 106 Bandy, Mary Lee, 25 Barish, Keith, 107–8 Barn, the, 81 Barnes and Noble, 145, 149 Barney’s Beanery, 71 Barnum, P. T., 96, 108 Barr, Alfred, 15–16 Barry, Iris, 16–18, 19, 19–24, 24, 25, 27–28, 50, 56, 199n28; Let’s Go to the Pictures, 17 Barth, Linda, 208n78 Bart Lytton Collection, 69 Bay, Michael, 153, 164 Becker, Peter, 154 Beckinsale, Kate, 161 “Behind the Screen” (exhibition), 41, 42 Bell Laboratories, 12 Bennett, Tony, 8 Benny, Jack, 64 Bergen, Edgar, 64 Bergman, Ingrid, 31, 38 Berkeley, Busby, 138 Berlin Exhibition (1969), 78 Best Buy, 151 Beverly Center mall (Los Angeles), 115 Beverly Wilshire Hotel, 102 Beyond Awards Week, 140 Big Parade, The, 12 Birth of a Nation, The, 12 Black History Month, 137 blacklisting, Hollywood and, 68 blockbuster, rise of, 91 blogs: proliferation of, 183. See also names of blogs Blu-Ray. See DVDs Boddy, William, 6 Bogart, Humphrey, 38, 145 Bogart: The Untold Story, 145 Bogdanovich, Peter, 135 Bordwell, David, 13 Box Office, 69 Box Office Mojo (blog), 181–82, 184 box office profits, 6 Bradley, Tom, 79–80 Branch, Brooks, 146 branding, 92–95, 143, 146, 159, 167, 177; Disney and, 96; of DVDs, 160; online, 175; and themed retailing, 115 Bravo, 132 Bride of Frankenstein, The, 34 British Film Institute (BFI), 56, 201n63; National Film Archive, 33–34; National Film Theatre, 33–34 Bronson Gates, 102 Brown, Clarence, 31 Brown Derby, 102 Brownlow, Kevin, 139 Bugs Bunny, 116 I N D E X • 235 • Bunker Hill, 71 Buzz Lightyear, 116 cable movie channels, and classic film canon, 134–42 cable television, 131; legitimacy of, 134; and movie programming, 130 Cagney, James, 54, 111, 132 Cahiers du Cinéma, 28–29 California Department of Commerce, 83 California Institute of the...