Politics, Desire, and the Hollywood Novel

Politics, Desire, and the Hollywood Novel

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The story of what happens when a serious writer goes to Hollywood has become a cliché: the writer is paid well but underappreciated, treated like a factory worker, and forced to write bad, formulaic movies. Most fail, become cynical, drink to excess, and at some point write a bitter novel that attacks the film industry in the name of high art. Like many too familiar storie...more
Hardcover, 198 pages
Published March 15th 2008 by University Of Iowa Press
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