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|title=Hollywood Frame by Frame: Behind the Scenes: Cinema's Unseen Contact Sheets

|author=Karina Longworth

|publisher=Ilex

|date=June 2014

|summary=While sometimes suffering from the same sense of artifice as its subject matter, this approach of looking at Hollywood through the less familiar image will prove for many to be a well worthwhile purchase.

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If you ever think of Hollywood you think of it as the home of a certain kind of output. Superstars, big studio productions, and what they combined to produce – things you might call movies, or films. Once upon a time, of course, they were called moving pictures, without the abbreviation, but the artform – once called the greatest of the 20th Century – was just as recognisable through the still images it produced. This coffee table book is designed as a catalogue of those still images – whether they be formally posed portraits taken on set, re-enactments of the cinema's scenes shot separately on still camera for the purpose of publicity, or candid stills that formed a matter the star had a final say in, which would go some way to increasing the cult of their personality in the magazines that were then starting to focus on celebrity.