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For example, To Have and Have Not (1944) is notable not only for the first pairing of actors Humphrey Bogart (1899–1957) and Lauren Bacall (1924–2014), but because it was written by two future winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature: Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), the author of the novel on which the script was nominally based, and ...
An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood is a 1988 non-fiction book whose topic is the careers of several prominent Jewish film producers in the early years of Hollywood. [1] Author Neal Gabler focuses on the psychological motivations of these film moguls , arguing that their background as Jewish immigrants shaped their careers ...
During Hollywood’s Golden Age of the 1930s and 1940s, when moviemaking operated under the studio system, the moguls who ruled over the industry exhibited little appreciation for writers or the ...
The film initiated so many advances in American cinema that it was rendered obsolete within a few years. [9] Though 1913 was a global landmark for filmmaking, 1917 was primarily an American one; the era of "classical Hollywood cinema" is distinguished by a narrative and visual style which began to dominate the film medium in America by 1917. [10]
During the adaptation process, a friend sent me a quote from author Jacqueline Mitchard, whose novel, The Deep End of the Ocean, was adapted for film. She said, "Where I come from, you can take ...
Hollywood Renaissance: The Cinema of Democracy in the Era of Ford, Kapra, and Kazan. Columbia University Press. Farber, Stephen. (1972). Hollywood on Hollywood. University of California Press. Froug, William. (1997). The Screenwriter Looks at the Screenwriter. Silman-James Press. Gabler, Neal. (1988). An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews ...
Many of the most enduring science fiction tropes were established in Golden Age literature. Space opera came to prominence with the works of E. E. "Doc" Smith; Isaac Asimov established the canonical Three Laws of Robotics beginning with the 1941 short story "Runaround"; the same period saw the writing of genre classics such as the Asimov's Foundation and Smith's Lensman series.
This is a list of Hollywood novels i.e., notable fiction about the American film and television industry and associated culture. The Hollywood novel is not to be confused with the Los Angeles novel, which is a novel set in Los Angeles and environs but not overtly about the movie business and its effect on the lives of industry participants and moviegoers.