Hollywood on Stage - Playwrights Evaluate the Culture Industry (Hardcover)

Playwrights have been depicting Hollywood as a cultural desert and an industry of profit-driven philistines ever since the early days of the movies. This collection of original essays covers the period from the 1920s to the present but concentrates on such contempory playwrights as David Mamet, Sam Shepard, David Rabe, Arthur Kopit, and Adrienne Kennedy. A substantial proportion of the volume is devoted to a discussion of the way in which these authors deconstruct Hollywood myths to reveal painful social and psychological issues in American life, providing a deeper and darker picture than the simple satires of movie-making in the 1920s and 1930s or Odets's comparison of the commercially debased Hollywood with the higher, purer art of the theatre. To complete and further complicate the picture, the volume concludes with essays on the African American experience, gay writers, and feminist writing as seen through the lens of Marlane Myer's ETTA JENKS. It is obvious that the legitimate stage remains a watchdog and constant critic of what is possibly the world's most powerful cultural phenomenon
This book will be eargerly read by all students of film, theatre, and 20th century literature.

General

Imprint:	Crc Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Studies in Modern Drama
Release date:	October 1997
First published:	1997
Authors:	Kimball King
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	254
ISBN-13:	978-0-8153-2823-0
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > General
LSN:	0-8153-2823-0
Barcode:	9780815328230

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