Hollywood fictions
Subtitle: the dream factory in American popular literature
By: John Parris Springer.
Series: Oklahoma project for discourse and theory ;; v. 19
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Norman
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
Subjects: American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Motion pictures in literature; Popular literature -- United States -- History and criticism; Motion picture actors and actresses in literature; Motion picture industry in literature; Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- In literature
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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-312) and index.