Hollywood by Hollywood: The Backstudio Picture and the Mystique of Making MoviesThe backstudio picture, or the movie about movie making, is a staple of Hollywood film production harking back to the silent era and extending to the present day. What gives backstudios their coherence as a distinctive genre, Steven Cohan argues in Hollywood by Hollywood, is their fascination with the mystique of Hollywood as a geographic place, a self contained industry, and a fantasy of fame, leisure, sexual freedom, and modernity. Yet by the same