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? > > > > >________________________________________________________________ >Sent via the WebMail system at cix.csi.cuny.edu > > > > > >---- >Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex >podcast: >http://www.screenlex.org 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 [log in to unmask] ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]