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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 7 May 2026
- ISBN 9781009419208
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages260 pages
- Weight 430 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Classical Hollywood, American Modernism charts the entwined trajectories of the Hollywood studio system and literary modernism in the United States.
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Classical Hollywood, American Modernism charts the entwined trajectories of the Hollywood studio system and literary modernism in the United States. By examining the various ways Hollywood's industry practices inflected the imaginations of authors, filmmakers, and studios, Jordan Brower offers a new understanding of twentieth-century American and ultimately world media culture. Synthesizing archival research with innovative theoretical approaches, this book tells the story of the studio system's genesis, international dominance, decline, and continued symbolic relevance during the American postwar era through the literature it influenced. It examines the American film industry's business practices and social conditions, demonstrating how concepts like anticipated adaptation, corporate authorship, systemic development, and global distribution inflected the form of some of the greatest works of prose fiction and nonfiction by modernist writers, such as Anita Loos, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Patsy Ruth Miller, Nathanael West, Parker Tyler, Malcolm Lowry, and James Baldwin.
'... one of those rare books that contributes to two fields, rather than using insights from one to make arguments on behalf of the other ... In addition to remarkable historical research, the book also offers significant interpretations of both canonical and less-frequently-studied modernist literature, which should prove inspiring both for future scholarship and the teaching of these works. ... This book will doubtless push the field forward as scholars continue to consider what happened when authors went to the movies and Hollywood hit the bookshelf.' Katherine Fusco, The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914-1945
Table of Contents:
Introduction. Hollywood Signs: 1. Paramount studios and transmedial possibility; 2. MGM modernism; 3. The motion picture industry's coming of age; 4. Global hollywood: parker tyler and malcolm lowry, between myth and system; 5. The scenes of an ending: adaptation, originality, and the new authorship of hollywood pictures; Conclusion: read anything good lately?; Notes; Index.
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