Classical Hollywood, American Modernism - A Literary History of the Studio System

"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"--

List 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.

About the author

Jordan Brower is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Kentucky. He coedited American Literature in the World: An Anthology from Anne Bradstreet to Octavia Butler (Wai Chee Dimock et al., 2016). His work has appeared in journals such as Critical Inquiry, ELH: English Literary History, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, James Joyce Quarterly, and Modern Language Quarterly.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Jordan Brower, Jordan (University of Kentucky) Brower
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.01.2024
• EAN: 9781009419154
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0941915-4
• No. of pages: 262
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, 20th Century, North America, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, Films, cinema, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Mid-century modern, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, North America (USA and Canada), Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, For higher / tertiary / university education