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.
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