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- catalog abstract ""More than just a place where movies were made, Hollywood in its "golden years" was a highly charged symbolic site in America. It was a focal point for mass desires and expectations and a symbol of cultural decay and crumbling social values. The popular fiction of those decades - including novels, short stories, essays, autobiographies, fan magazines, and trade journals - portrayed the town as a place where hope and failure in American life tragically and inevitably collided." "John Parris Springer's incisive readings of these "Hollywood fictions" trace the contradictory ways in which Hollywood was represented and analyze the conflicting images it evoked."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11571456.
- catalog coverage "Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) In literature.".
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""More than just a place where movies were made, Hollywood in its "golden years" was a highly charged symbolic site in America. It was a focal point for mass desires and expectations and a symbol of cultural decay and crumbling social values. The popular fiction of those decades - including novels, short stories, essays, autobiographies, fan magazines, and trade journals - portrayed the town as a place where hope and failure in American life tragically and inevitably collided." "John Parris Springer's incisive readings of these "Hollywood fictions" trace the contradictory ways in which Hollywood was represented and analyze the conflicting images it evoked."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: Hollywood, Hollywood Fiction, and American Mass Culture -- Ch. 1. Sunshine and Shadow: The Paradox of Hollywood in the 1920s -- Ch. 2. "The Eden of the Movies": The Redemptive Myth of the Hollywood Romance -- Ch. 3. Illusion and Reality: Hollywood and the Peril of Disillusionment -- Ch. 4. Falling Stars: Hollywood Fiction and the Lessons of Stardom -- Ch. 5. "The Most Terrifying Town in the World": Hollywood Fiction of the 1930s -- Ch. 6. One Thousand Dollars a Week: Writers in Hollywood Fiction -- Ch. 7. From Tinseltown to Suckerville: Hollywood Crime Novels of the Thirties and Forties.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 319 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0806132035 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Oklahoma project for discourse and theory ; v. 19".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Norman : University of Oklahoma Press,".
- catalog spatial "Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) In literature.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "813/.509357 21".
- catalog subject "American fiction 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Motion picture actors and actresses in literature.".
- catalog subject "Motion picture industry in literature.".
- catalog subject "Motion pictures in literature.".
- catalog subject "PS374.M55 S67 2000".
- catalog subject "Popular literature United States History and criticism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Hollywood, Hollywood Fiction, and American Mass Culture -- Ch. 1. Sunshine and Shadow: The Paradox of Hollywood in the 1920s -- Ch. 2. "The Eden of the Movies": The Redemptive Myth of the Hollywood Romance -- Ch. 3. Illusion and Reality: Hollywood and the Peril of Disillusionment -- Ch. 4. Falling Stars: Hollywood Fiction and the Lessons of Stardom -- Ch. 5. "The Most Terrifying Town in the World": Hollywood Fiction of the 1930s -- Ch. 6. One Thousand Dollars a Week: Writers in Hollywood Fiction -- Ch. 7. From Tinseltown to Suckerville: Hollywood Crime Novels of the Thirties and Forties.".
- catalog title "Hollywood fictions : the dream factory in American popular literature / John Parris Springer.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".