Introduction

• All right, Mr. DeMille: '"I’m ready for my close-up."'
• Sunset Boulevard


  A 1950s noir melodrama directed by Billy Wilder
• The film investigates how the popularity of the Hollywood film industry encouraged a social fixation on the glory of celebrity
• Hollywood film industry


  • Popularity
  • Social fixation on the glory of celebrity
• Billy Wilder explores


  The nuances of delusion and reality in Sunset Boulevard
• Hollywood


  An industry that often continues the illusion of fame and stardom
• Joe Gillis


  • Obsession with success
  • Guided into the Hollywood tragedy
• Betty Schaefer


  • Wants to become an actor but the director doesn’t offer her, so she finds a way to be a part of the Hollywood community
• Sunset Boulevard highlights the danger of the dark side of Hollywood