1st Edition

Hollywood on Stage Playwrights Evaluate the Culture Industry

254 Pages

by Routledge

254 Pages

by Routledge

256 Pages

by Routledge

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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... Read more

Introduction, Kimball King; Part HOLLYWOOD ON STAGE; Chapter 1 “Engaged in the Art of Photodrama”: Merton of the Movies, William Hutchings; Chapter 2 What Makes Sammy Run?: S. N. Behrman and the Fugitive Kind, Robert F. Gross; Chapter 3 Hollywood as Moral Landscape: Clifford Odets’ The Big Knife, Albert Wertheim; Chapter 4 Hollywood on the Contemporary Stage: Image, Phallic “Players,” and the Culture Industry, Stephen Watt; Chapter 5 Staging Hollywood, Selling Out, Marcia Blumberg; Chapter 6 Sanctity, Seduction or Settling Scores Against the Swine in Speed-the-Plow?, Leslie Kane; Chapter 7 So Dis Is Hollywood: Mamet in Hell, Toby Silverman Zinman; Chapter 8 The Myth of Narcissus: Shepard's True West and Mamet's Speed-the-Plow, Katherine H. Burkman; Chapter 9 Alienation Effects and Exteriorized Subjectivity in Angel City and The Bostonians, RJ LaVelle; Chapter 10 “It's Symbolic!”—Arthur Kopit's Revised Road to Nirvana and Its Portrayal of Hollywood and Society, Todd M. Lidh; Chapter 11 “The Devil Answers”: Drury Pifer's Strindberg in Hollywood, William Kerwin; Chapter 12 The Last Tycoon: Elia Kazan's and Harold Pinter's Unsentimental Hollywood Romance, Christopher C. Hudgins; Chapter 13 Hollywood as Text in the Plays of Christopher Hampton, with Reference to David Rabe and Others, Kimball King; Chapter 14 The Clash of Verbal and Visual (Con)Texts: Adrienne Kennedy's (Re)Construction of Racial Polarities in An Evening with Dead Essex and A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White, E. Barnsley Brown; Chapter 15 Hollywood as Inspiration for the Stage: The Gay Playwrights' Perspective, Robert Gross, Kimball King; Chapter 16 The Matter of Bodies: Women, Pornography, and Hollywood in Marlane Meyer's Etta Jenks, Leslie Frost; Index;