The last word : the Hollywood novel and the studio system /
"While early Hollywood worked tirelessly to burnish its public image in the wake of celebrity scandal, several industry insiders turned to fiction as a vehicle to expose the backstage reality of the so-called dream factory. The Last Word argues that the Hollywood novel opened up space for cultu...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1 Welcome, Will Hays!: Film Industry Scandal and the Rise of the Hollywood Novel
- 2. Breaking the Silents: The Extra Girl and the Novel of Silent Hollywood
- 3. Soundproofing Scandal: Soundstages, the Detective Novel, and Hollywood Boulevard
- 4. Technicolor Consciousness: White History, Consumer Culture, and the Production Code
- 5. "You befouled your own nest!": Film Noir and the Eclipse of the Hollywood Novel.