“Stardust Monuments is a much-needed contribution to he growing literature on firm and cultural institutions, including work on film and cultural institutions, including work on film museums, film education, and fan culture. The chapters on theme parks, stores, and home entertainment are particularly rich with carefully observed detail.”—Moving Image
“Alison Trope’s new book, Stardust Monuments, is an extremely important contribution to Hollywood’s institutional history, because it focuses for the first time on the way the entertainment industry has portrayed its own history (or not) through various media, including museum exhibitions, film archives and theme parks.”—Dr. Jan-Christopher Horak, director, UCLA Film & Television Archive
“Eloquently written and rich in rigorous research, Stardust Monuments impels us to wonder not just where Hollywood is, but, strikingly, what it is—it’s not only a geographical locale but a mythology, a state of mind, that finds its life extended in complex (and sometimes curious) venues and sites from museums to themed restaurants to specialty stores to cable channels to new realms of electronic virtuality. A far-reaching investigation.”—Dana Polan, Cinema Studies, New York University