Classical Hollywood, American modernism : a literary history of the studio system / Jordan Brower.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brower, Jordan, 1985- author.

Contributor:

Judith Greenblatt Endowment Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture studios--California--Los Angeles--History.

Motion picture studios.

Motion picture industry--California--Los Angeles--History.

Motion picture industry.

Physical Description:

xiii, 246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"This book charts the Hollywood studio system's genesis, international dominance, and self-understood demise by way of its influences on modernist literature in the United States. It shows how the American film industry's business practices and social conditions inflected the form of some of the greatest works of prose fiction and non-fiction"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : Hollywood signs

Paramount Studios and transmedial possibility

MGM modernism

The motion picture industry's coming of age

Global Hollywood : Parker Tyler and Malcolm Lowry, between myth and system

The scenes of an ending : adaptation, originality, and the new authorship of Hollywood pictures

Conclusion : read anything good lately?.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Judith Greenblatt Endowment Fund.

ISBN:

9781009419154

1009419153

OCLC:

1391676296