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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