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American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 434–436.
Published: 01 June 2010
...Colbey Emmerson Reid © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Glamour in Six Dimensions: Modernism and the Radiance of Form . By Judith Brown. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2009. xiv, 199 pp. $39.95. Hollywood Ambitions: Celebrity in the Movie Age . By Marsha Orgeron...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 199–200.
Published: 01 March 2009
... Jacobson and Gaspar GonzĂĄlez. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2006. 234 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $19.95. Politics, Desire, and the Hollywood Novel. By Chip Rhodes. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2008. 190 pp. $34.95. In their various scholarly sleuthings of twentieth-century film...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (2): 395–397.
Published: 01 June 2006
...Barton Keeton 2006 Shooting Cowboys and Indians: Silent Western Films, American Culture, and the Birth of Hollywood . Andrew Brodie Smith. Boulder: Univ. Press of Colorado. 2003. viii, 230 pp. $34.95. Cowboys as Cold Warriors: The Western and U.S. History . Stanley Corkin...
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American Literature (2002) 74 (3): 660–662.
Published: 01 September 2002
... with the international and popular reception of the tenets of the movement: ‘‘Like modernism, Hollywood thrillers of the 1940s are characterized by urban landscapes, subjective narration, nonlinear plots, hard-boiled poetry, and misogynistic eroticism; also like modernism, they are somewhat ‘anti-American...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (2): 456–458.
Published: 01 June 2003
... and ïŹgure, especially in Whitman and Dickinson, may well ïŹnd some surprises in Word, Birth, and Culture. Jonathan Elmer, Indiana University 6849 AMERICAN LITERATURE 75:2 / sheet 214 of 246 Global Hollywood...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 151–182.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Palmer Rampell Abstract In the 1970s the large multinational entertainment conglomerates that gained control of both publishing and Hollywood traded the rights to creative works across different media, hoping for a single moneymaking hit. This new emphasis on blockbuster productions led...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 541–568.
Published: 01 September 2016
... camouflages him or her among the crowds of caricatures that inhabit West’s Hollywood. The second is what I term grotesque laughter —an affective overspill that dismantles subjectivity into a series of ontologically unstable performances. Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 feeling form...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (2): 454–456.
Published: 01 June 2003
..., Indiana University 6849 AMERICAN LITERATURE 75:2 / sheet 214 of 246 Global Hollywood. By Toby Miller, Nitin Govil, John McMurria, and Richard Max- well. London: British Film Institute. 2001. vi, 279 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $27.95...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (1): 27–54.
Published: 01 March 2018
....” . . . “This is what Hollywood needs. This script’s got America in every line of it. Cheap sets too. You can do it for peanuts.” (120) While such representations of labor strategies are made explicitly available to Al and to the reader as one possible trail of clues to the mystery of What Makes Sammy Run? what...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 141–166.
Published: 01 March 2008
... in the novels, Louie talks more about Shakespeare and Hollywood movies than about Chicano, Mexican, or Native American culture.8 He is in love with an upper-middle-class white woman, and in spite of his friendship with his gay younger brother, TomĂĄs, he is blatantly homophobic. In La...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 563–597.
Published: 01 September 2001
... of Hollywood ïŹlm, referring to the ‘‘sil- ver dream’’ of cinema.4 Through their references to Hollywood and the cinematic apparatus, other short stories from the thirties, such as ‘‘Turnabout’’ (1932) and ‘‘All the Dead Pilots’’ (1932) suggest Faulk- ner’s critical awareness of the medium and the industry...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 365–386.
Published: 01 June 2001
... in ‘‘liberal’’ Hollywood responses to the changing character of the Civil Rights movement, because these ïŹlm narratives visibly and consistently de- ploy images of white femininity that rewrite both the gender and racial...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (3): 671–690.
Published: 01 September 2000
...- American Activities Committee of the House of Representative during the Hollywood Ten and other show business hearings conducted between 1947 and 1960. Authors and ïŹlmmakers examined include Arthur Miller, Bertolt...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (4): 669–698.
Published: 01 December 2005
... the cen- tral channel of mass culture in the twentieth century, not just supple- menting but supplanting print for millions around the globe—arguably a position it still holds today in the twenty-ïŹrst century. While the hegemony of classic Hollywood narrative during the last century may be overstated...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 193–196.
Published: 01 March 2009
..., Desire, and the Hollywood Novel. By Chip Rhodes. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2008. 190 pp. $34.95. In their various scholarly sleuthings of twentieth-century film, animation, and literature (the Hollywood novel in particular), Christopher Lehman, Matthew Frye Jacobson, Gaspar GonzĂĄlez...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 196–198.
Published: 01 March 2009
... Jacobson and Gaspar GonzĂĄlez. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2006. 234 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $19.95. Politics, Desire, and the Hollywood Novel. By Chip Rhodes. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2008. 190 pp. $34.95. In their various scholarly sleuthings of twentieth-century film...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 201–203.
Published: 01 March 2009
..., Desire, and the Hollywood Novel. By Chip Rhodes. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2008. 190 pp. $34.95. In their various scholarly sleuthings of twentieth-century film, animation, and literature (the Hollywood novel in particular), Christopher Lehman, Matthew Frye Jacobson, Gaspar GonzĂĄlez...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 203–205.
Published: 01 March 2009
... Jacobson and Gaspar GonzĂĄlez. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2006. 234 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $19.95. Politics, Desire, and the Hollywood Novel. By Chip Rhodes. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2008. 190 pp. $34.95. In their various scholarly sleuthings of twentieth-century film...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 206–209.
Published: 01 March 2009
... Jacobson and Gaspar GonzĂĄlez. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2006. 234 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $19.95. Politics, Desire, and the Hollywood Novel. By Chip Rhodes. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2008. 190 pp. $34.95. In their various scholarly sleuthings of twentieth-century film...
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American Literature (2002) 74 (3): 662–664.
Published: 01 September 2002
... with the international and popular reception of the tenets of the movement: ‘‘Like modernism, Hollywood thrillers of the 1940s are characterized by urban landscapes, subjective narration, nonlinear plots, hard-boiled poetry, and misogynistic eroticism; also like modernism, they are somewhat ‘anti-American...