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Souls for Sale (Paperback)
Rupert Hughes; Introduction by Sarah Gleeson-White
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On her wedding night, Remember "Mem" Steddon, daughter of a
small-town conservative preacher, has a sudden change of heart.
Abandoning her groom, she impulsively sneaks off their Los
Angeles-bound honeymooner train in the middle of the desert. When
she recuperates from dehydration, she finds herself on a film set
and is cast as an extra. As Mem's masterful art of deception drives
her to fame, the left-behind husband returns, raging with jealousy
and murderous revenge. First published 1922 and adapted to screen
the following year by Rupert Hughes himself, this "insider" story
of Hollywood filmmaking traces every Hollywood trope from slapstick
comedy to theatrical melodrama with love and deceit at every page
turn. Hazing the lines between truth and fiction, Souls for Sale is
a snapshot of Hollywood's Golden Age, hailed by three-time Pulitzer
Prize winner Carl Sandburg as "the heart of moviedom by anyone who
believes in it."
William Faulkner remains one of the most important writers of the
twentieth century, and Faulkner Studies offers up seemingly endless
ways to engage anew questions and problems that continue to occupy
literary studies into the twenty-first century, and beyond the
compass of Faulkner himself. His corpus has proved particularly
accommodating of a range of perspectives and methodologies that
include Black studies, visual culture studies, world literatures,
modernist studies, print culture studies, gender and sexuality
studies, sound studies, the energy humanities, and much else. The
fifteen essays collected in The New William Faulkner Studies charts
these developments in Faulkner scholarship over the course of this
new century and offers prospects for further interrogation of his
oeuvre.
William Faulkner at Twentieth Century-Fox: The Annotated
Screenplays presents for the first time and in one volume the five
screenplays Faulkner wrote while under contract to Twentieth
Century-Fox in the mid 1930s and a sixth he wrote in 1952. An
informative introduction describes Faulkners screenwriting
practices, such as adaptation and collaboration, and contextualizes
these within a broader genealogy of Hollywood screenwriting and
within one of the most important moments in the history of American
cinema. Each of the six screenplays appears in full with scholarly
annotations, and brief prefatory essays elucidate their evolution
over various drafts and with various co-writers.
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