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9780761814665

Into America's Dream-Dump A Postmodern Study of the Hollywood Novel

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  • ISBN13:

    9780761814665

  • ISBN10:

    0761814663

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-09-08
  • Publisher: UPA

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Summary

This fascinating study explores the Hollywood novel as a culmination of the American Dream and a symbol of its betrayal. Born of promise and hope yet focused on immediate gratification and profit, Hollywood mirrors the contradictions inherent in the myth of the American Dream. The history of the development of the Hollywood novel reflects the deterioration of the American Dream during the 20th century as it has passed from utopian promise through decadence to nightmare and apocalypse. Along these lines, the genre provides a metaphor for the growing sense of futility, loss of hope, and increasing sense of chaos that characterizes a spiritually deprived America.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix
Introduction xi
PART ONE: THE PROMISED LAND--AMERICA'S LAST COLONY 1(196)
PART TWO: THE EARLY HOLLYWOOD NOVEL
The First of Its Kind
17(8)
Merton of the Movies (1922)
Harry Leon Wilson
Five Early Hollywood Novels (1928-38)--The Seeker and the World of the Cheaters
25(28)
Spider Boy (1928)
Carl Van Vechten
Hollywood Girl (1929)
J. P. McEvoy
Queer People (1930)
Carroll
Garret Graham
If We Only Had Money (1938)
Lee Shippey
I Should Have Stayed Home (1938)
Horace McCoy
PART THREE: THE MATURE HOLLYWOOD NOVEL
Introduction
51(2)
The Day of the Locust (1939)
53(18)
Nathanael West
The Last Tycoon (1940)
71(24)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
What Makes Sammy Run? (1944) and The Disenchanted (1950)
95(18)
Budd Schulberg
The Deer Park (1955)
113(26)
Norman Mailer
PART FOUR: THE RECENT HOLLYWOOD NOVEL: OLD DIRECTIONS AND NEW
Introduction
137(2)
Come On Out, Daddy (1963)
139(20)
Bernard Wolfe
The Nowhere City (1965)
159(18)
Alison Lurie
Play It As It Lays (1970)
177(20)
Joan Didion
Conclusions 197(4)
Notes 201(16)
Bibliography 217(12)
Index 229(2)
About the Author 231

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