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Tycoons and locusts; a regional look at Hollywood fiction of the 1930s.

Title
Tycoons and locusts; a regional look at Hollywood fiction of the 1930s. With a pref. by Harry T. Moore.
Author
Wells, Walter.
Publication
Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press [1973]

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Description
xiii, 139 pages; 22 cm.
Summary
An in-depth study of eight Hollywood works of fiction of the 1930s, focusing on the role of region in literature.
Series Statement
Crosscurrents/modern critiques
Uniform Title
Crosscurrents/modern critiques.
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • Geschichte 1930-1939
  • American fiction > California > Los Angeles > History and criticism
  • Authors, American > Homes and haunts > California > Los Angeles
  • American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Motion picture industry in literature
  • City and town life in literature
  • American fiction
  • Authors, American > Homes and haunts
  • Intellectual life
  • Literature
  • Literatur
  • Los Angeles (Calif.) > Intellectual life > 20th century
  • Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) > In literature
  • California > Los Angeles
  • California > Los Angeles > Hollywood
  • Los Angeles- Hollywood
  • USA
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 132-134.
Contents
Horace McCoy -- John O'Hara -- Nathaniel West -- Raymond Chandler -- Bud Schulberg -- F. Scott Fitzgerald.
ISBN
  • 0809306069
  • 9780809306060
LCCN
73004266
OCLC
  • ocm00596362
  • 596362
  • SCSB-254014
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library