The Last Word
The Hollywood Novel and the Studio System
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 3 December 2020
- ISBN 9780190944551
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages218 pages
- Size 159x241x17 mm
- Weight 445 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 15 photographs and film stills 42
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Short description:
The Last Word tells the story of a handful of insiders who used fiction as a way to expose the harsh realities behind the silver screen. Unauthorized and unfiltered, these works uncover a new history of Hollywood during the studio era.
MoreLong description:
The Last Word argues that the Hollywood novel opened up space for cultural critique of the film industry at a time when the industry lacked the capacity to critique itself. While the young studio system worked tirelessly to burnish its public image in the wake of celebrity scandal, several industry insiders wrote fiction to fill in what newspapers and fan magazines left out. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, these novels aimed to expose the invisible machinery of classical Hollywood cinema, including not only the evolving artifice of the screen but also the promotional discourse that complemented it. As likeminded filmmakers in the 1940s and 1950s gradually brought the dark side of the industry to the screen, however, the Hollywood novel found itself struggling to live up to its original promise of delivering the unfilmable. By the 1960s, desperate to remain relevant, the genre had devolved into little more than erotic fantasy of movie stars behind closed doors, perhaps the only thing the public couldn't already find elsewhere. Still, given their unique ability to speak beyond the institutional restraints of their time, these earlier works offer a window into the industry's dynamic creation and re-creation of itself in the public imagination.
The book is a critical resource for those interested in Hollywood history or film and media as a cultural force... Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Welcome, Will Hays!: Film Industry Scandal and the Rise of the Hollywood Novel
Chapter 2 - Breaking the Silents: The Extra Girl and the Novel of Silent Hollywood
Chapter 3 - Soundproofing Scandal: Soundstages, the Detective Novel, and Hollywood Boulevard
Chapter 4 - Technicolor Consciousness: White History, Consumer Culture, and the Production Code
Chapter 5 - "You befouled your own nest!": Film Noir and the Eclipse of the Hollywood Novel
Conclusion
