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A '''Hollywood novel''' is a [[novel]] that takes the Southern [[California]] [[motion picture]] industry as its setting and often its subject. Examples of Hollywood novels include ''The Day of the Locust'' by [[Nathanael West]], ''What Makes Sammy Run'' by [[Budd Schulberg]], ''The Last Tycoon'' by [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]], ''After Many A Summer Dies the Swan'' by [[Aldous Huxley]], ''Inside Daisy Clover'' by [[Gavin Lambert]], ''The Deer Park'' by [[Norman Mailer]], ''I Should Have Stayed Home'' by [[Horace McCoy]], Michael Tolkin's ''The Player'' and ''The Return of the Player'', Joan Didion's ''Play It As It Lays'', ''StarCrossed Hearts'' by [[Anne Carter]], etc. Novels set in [[Los Angeles]] but not primarily about the movie business and its effect on movie people and the public are not properly called Hollywood novels. |
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==Background and Perception of Hollywood Novels== |
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Many novelists such as [[William Faulkner]] and [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]] took jobs writing screenplays in Hollywood since they made more money. But many novelists such as them soon felt the film industry made them so miserable, and wrote novels detailing fictionalized versions of their experiences. Often some of these novels would revolve around some bitter screenwriter or producer who believed they were screwed over by some studio executive. And these same novels often took place during [[The Golden Age of Hollywood]] in the 1930s-1940's. |
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==The Love of The Last Tycoon== |
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[[The Love of The Last Tycoon]] is an unfinished novel written Fitzgerald left incomplete before his death about a studio executive Monroe Stahr and later adapted into [[The Last Tycoon (film)]] starring [[Robert DeNiro]]. Stahr is living for his job, focusing on nothing else but work, and is now suffering from a heart condition. The point of view of this novel is told through Cecelia Brady, the daughter of one of Stahr’s fellow executives. She flirts him, and wants to start some kind of love affair, but he is too wrapped up in his work to even try to think of her in romantic fashion. |
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==What Makes Sammy Run?== |
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‘’[[What Makes Sammy Run?]] written by [[Budd Schulberg]] is from the point of view of New York Times drama critic Al Manheim focusing on the 16 year old Jewish by Sammy Glick who rises out of the ghetto in New York to becoming a hot in demand screenwriter in Hollywood. The two become good friends almost from the start, but soon realizes his best friend is a ruthless backstabber. |
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==Hollywood Wives and Other Perceptions== |
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[[Hollywood Wives]] was a novel written bestselling author [[Jackie Collins]], and was from the point of view of several wives of screenwriters and producers, detailing how their wives dealt with the Hollywood lifestyle along with how it affected them. A couple years after the novel’s release, it was turned into a made for television miniseries by [[Aaron Spelling]], and was a huge hit for the ABC network. It was also most popular miniseries during the 1980s. Spelling also produced [[Dynasty (TV series)]] which the author’s sister [[Joan Collins]] who playing the iconic role of Alexis Carrington in the series. |
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==See Also== |
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==References and External Links== |
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[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-miley/the-hollywood-novel-at-ze_b_73639.html] |
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==Further Reading== |
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*Slide, A.: ''The Hollywood Novel: A Critical Guide to Over 1200 Works with Film-Related Themes of Characters, 1912 through 1994'', McFarland & Co., 1995. |
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hollywood Novel}} |
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[[Category:Literary genres]] |
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[[Category:Hollywood history and culture]] |
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[[Category:Novels set in California]] |
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