Re: novels about early cinema
Fri, 25 May 2007 13:56:20 -0400
Dear Scott:
You might look at Charlie Musser's current course syllabus on the Hollywood
novel:
http://www.yale.edu/summer/syllabi2007/FILM%20S180.pdf
Best,
Jason McKahan
Florida State University
At 03:17 PM 5/24/2007, Scott Hutchins wrote:
>I was wondering if anyone knows of any novels about early cinema that are
>from the period when such films were new. I recently read L. Frank Baum's
>_Aunt Jane's Nieces Out West_, which is partly a fictional account of the
>film scene in 1914, but mainly about a man falsely accused of being a
>jewel thief. By the end I felt I'd learned more about pearls than an
>early response to the film scene by someone who was both an insider and an
>outsider at the very time he wrote the book. Can anyone think of other
>examples of this sort of fiction?
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Jason Grant McKahan
Doctoral Candidate and Adjunct Instructor
College of Communication
College of Motion Picture, Television and Recording Arts
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306-2664
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