Hollywood, the Dream Factory
An Anthropologist Looks at the Movie-Makers
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An Anthropologist Looks at the Movie-Makers. Hortense Powdermaker (December 24, 1900 – June 16, 1970) was an American anthropologist best known for her ethnographic studies of African Americans in rural America and of Hollywood. Powdermaker's study of the Hollywood film industry was an early example of anthropological research on contemporary American society. Her observations of the tensions between business and art in the film world led her to suggest that the social relations of the filmmaking process significantly affect the content and meaning of movies.
1st edition = Little, Brown & Company, 1950
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