Hooray For Hollywood

How has Hollywood - as a place, an industry, a concept, and a myth - affected American culture as a whole? This book addresses this complex question. It presents hundreds of A?Z entries that discuss Hollywood as a place, industry, concept, and myth in American popular culture, within a historical context as well as from the modern perspective of our Internet-enabled, social media-driven society, supplies primary documents that present first-hand accounts of topics related to Hollywood and includes a timeline that highlights key events in Hollywood history.