Cerasulo, Tom.
Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, c2010.
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Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-195) and index.
• A bold reevaluation of the screen-writing years of a quartet of iconic writers often at odds with the film industry. –from publisher description
• Introduction — Ain’t we got funds? : markets and vocations in the 1920s — Dream lives : Fitzgerald and West in 1931-1932 — Activists, artists, and actors : searches for an audience in 1933-1934 — Producer’s blood : Hollywood takes on Hollywood in 1937 — The big canvas(es) : lessons to be taught in 1938-1939 — Put yourself in my place : Hollywood novels of 1940-1941 — The dust on the wings : reputations and reconfigurations in the 1950s.

Subjects:

• American fiction — 20th century — Film adaptations.
• American fiction — 20th century — History and criticism.
• Motion pictures and literature — United States.
• Motion picture authorship — United States — History.

Requested by Cowgill, R