Hollywood and the Profession of Authorship, 1928-1940 by Richard Fine

Description: For more than fifty years American authors have regularly accepted work in the movie industry, and for more than fifty years they have been warning that there is no territory more dangerous for a talented writer than Hollywood. Few writers returned from Hollywood without at least one eyewitness account of studio mistreatment, neglect, or stupidity. Magazines and newspapers eagerly printed such tales. Fueled as much by auterism as by charges of ill-treatment, the conflict between Hollywood and its screenwriters continues. Chapter one provides the context for writers, who achieved enormous prosperity during the Depression, reacted badly to the film industry. Chapter 2, The Writer and the Silent Screen, reviews the development of the professional screenwriter. Chapter 3 re-examines the industrial and commercial organizations which has come to be known as the studio system. Chapter 4 uses writers' letters, diaries, papers, and personal documents to reconstruct their view of Hollywood during the thirties. Chapter 5 explores the efforts to modify, defy, circumvent, and eventually accommodate the film industry practices.

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