"The principles which Hollywood claims as it's own rely on notions of decorum, proportion, formal harmony, respect for tradition, mimesis, self-effecting craftsmanship, and cool control of the perceiver's response - canons which critics in any medium usually call "classical" (Maltby). Through the satirizing of film language and it's processes Sullivan's Travels brings about an awareness of it's own ideology within the framework of Classic Hollywood. The film tells the journey of "Sully," a big time …showed first 75 words of 1196 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1196 total…to comment on it's own place among a very narrow-minded Hollywood. A rare trendsetter you may say that proves that even in a Hollywood film, thinking and laughing are not always mutually exclusive. Maltby, Richard. "The Classical Hollywood Cinema." p 29-32. Rick Altman, 'dickens, Griffith, and Film Theory Today', in Jane Ganies, ed., Classical <Tab/><Tab/>Hollywood Narrative: The Paradigm Wars (Durham, NC: Duck University Press, 1992), p.32.