Hollywood fictions
Hollywood fictions: the dream factory in American popular literature John Parris Springer
Publisher: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c2000.
ISBN: 0806132590
DDC: 813.509357
LCC: PS374
Edition: (pbk)
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-312) and index.
Introduction: Hollywood, Hollywood Fiction, and American Mass Culture
-- Ch. 1. Sunshine and Shadow: The Paradox of Hollywood in the 1920s
-- Ch. 2. "The Eden of the Movies": The Redemptive Myth of the
Hollywood Romance -- Ch. 3. Illusion and Reality: Hollywood and the
Peril of Disillusionment -- Ch. 4. Falling Stars: Hollywood Fiction
and the Lessons of Stardom -- Ch. 5. "The Most Terrifying Town in the
World": Hollywood Fiction of the 1930s -- Ch. 6. One Thousand Dollars
a Week: Writers in Hollywood Fiction -- Ch. 7. From Tinseltown to
Suckerville: Hollywood Crime Novels of the Thirties and Forties.
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