... seduced and betrayed by Hollywood and its stars. This article argues that Puig's early texts, The Buenos Aires Affair , with its collection of Hollywood epigraphs, and Kiss of the Spider Woman , with its movie-obsessed protagonist, perform the very concept of queer movie fandom. What one sees in Puig's...

..., as a critical piece of generic development, one that is given little attention in the study of most other film genres. Copyright © 2018 by University of Oklahoma 2018 film genre cinema exhibition stag early Hollywood ...

... thousand pages of an eleven-­hundred-­page novel. While Merle embodies camera technologies and the rapid development thereof, Lew represents the fleeting print culture leading up to early Hollywood film. Examining the distinct paths of the two charac- ters will illuminate the way Merle...

... , 1999 . Balio Tino . `` `A Major Presence in All of the World Markets': The Globalization of Hollywood in the 1990s '' Contemporary Hollywood Cinema . Eds. Neale Steve Smith Murray . New York : Routledge , 1998 . Buell Frederick . `` Nationalist Postnationalism: Globalist...

...Ben Robbins This article analyzes William Faulkner’s 1951 prose drama hybrid narrative Requiem for a Nun as an adaptation of two “women’s films” that he worked on as a Hollywood screenwriter in the 1940s, The Damned Don’t Cry (completed in 1941, released in 1950) and Mildred Pierce (completed...

..., America (34) In my own early life in Bombay, the experience of modernity was notably syn- aesthetic and largely pretheoretical. I saw and smelled modernity reading Life and American college catalogs . . ., seeing B-grade films (and some A-grade ones) from Hollywood I begged my...

... as a mocking satire or parody of the melodramatic. This view also appreciates Lynch's films themselves as postmodern, self-conscious exposés on the artificiality of the Hollywood fantasy-production industry in general and a critique of the classical noir mythology specifically. The other side—the side usually...

..., and the Origins of Our Times . New York : Verso , 1994 . Cavell Stanley . Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1981 . Cohen Abner . `` A Polyethnic London Carnival as a Contested Cultural Performance .'' Ethnic and Racial...

... in cinemas in December 2002, it was greeted with great critical fanfare. The film focuses on the travails of a creatively blocked screenwriter who struggles to adapt a nonfic- tion book into a Hollywood screenplay, only to end up writing about his inability to write. Adaptation's artful and complex...

... In such cases, Miriam occu- 9. Since Richardson was an avid viewer of film, early representations of women in film undoubt- edly influenced her fictional representations of women. Though Mulvey rightly sees women in early Hollywood film as passive, Richardson in her fiction radically works against...

... observes in How to be an Intellectual in the Age of TV (2005) . In Vidal's fiction, movies are often thought of as a way of shaping the world; Myra Breckinridge and Myron are the two most evident examples, but the later novels of his Narratives of Empire also take up the cause. In Hollywood , his...

... novel. Thereafter, poets were much more likely found in Hollywood writers rooms than on the screen. Early film s tendency to figure poetry s disappearance or death is one of many literary ghosts Chasar exorcises (85). Few scholars command the archival knowledge to do so with such breadth of cultural...

... meter constitutive of the Aeneid and Hollywood's scoring of settler-colonialist fantasy. The ploy was an obvious and effective plea to keep our attention fixed on the units of Virgil's poetry, meter being just one element among many others. But I've never forgotten the generative friction...

... the for- mulas of the science fiction digest market, the less restrictive but easily forgotten men's magazines which sought to emulate Playboy in the 1960s, and the well- documented frustrations of writing for Hollywood and episodic television. By the late 60s, when he began reaping rapturous praise...

... as a defining characteristic of fictions ranging from classic American westerns and film noir (Vernet 1993) to post- 9/11 Hollywood action cinema (Purse 2011, 110). In addition to reading Delon’s star power in relation to postwar French anxieties about urbanization and corrupted paternal authority, we...

... is leveraged in this picture to make a case regarding Europe's place of marginality in global cinema and presumably by extension global politics. In contrast, Kazan's On the Waterfront is a mainstream Hollywood classic, with all the revisionist notions of progress that so often accompany its reenactments...

... . Tsitsopoulou Vassiliki . 2000 . “Greekness, Gender Stereotypes, and the Hollywood Musical in Jules Dassin's Never on Sunday.” Journal of Modern Greek Studies 18 , no. 1 : 79 – 93 . Vincendeau Ginette . 2014 . “Sundays and Cybèle: Innocent Love?” The Criterion Collection , October 1...

... that the property man seemed to be inci- dental to the performance, and reminded her of the image of the "sickly China- man from Asia" in Hollywood movies.14 12 When The Yellow Jacket was first produced, Hazelton and Benrimo gave an interview in which they credited Chinese theatre, particularly...

... and the text often credited with launching the Western, stands at a skewed and interesting angle to the popular genre it helped inaugurate. 1 In stark contrast to the countless dime and Hollywood Westerns that would follow in its wake, Wister's novel is both consistently preoccupied with animals...

... of Hollywood histo- ry? Are we to marvel at the idea of Sinatra and JFK discussing politics, dismiss that as impossible, or feel uneasy at the president's choice of advisers? Or are we just getting nostalgic about how meaningful this enduring older throwaway culture seems, in contrast to genuinely...