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The Last Word - The Hollywood Novel and the Studio System (Hardcover)
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The Last Word - The Hollywood Novel and the Studio System (Hardcover)
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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.
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