The man with a camera eye: Cinematic form and Hollywood Malediction in John Dos Passos's The Big Money

From: Literature/Film Quarterly | Date: January 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

In the 1930s, the Paramount film corporation attempted to establish itself as different than, and superior to, other Hollywood film companies-such as MGM and Universal-by employing established writers like Dorothy Parker, William Faulkner and John Dos Passos. This strategy was meant to improve the quality of scripts that were being pumped out by Los Angeles script factories. Whether these writers improved the quality of Hollywood scripts is of course questionable; nonetheless, Paramount continued to merge mass culture and literary work by soliciting manuscripts from such diverse modernist ...

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