"...worthy collection. Appropriate for upper-division undergraduates through faculty." -- Choice
Introduction, Kimball King; Part HOLLYWOOD ON STAGE; Chapter 1 “Engaged in the Art of Photodrama”: Merton of the Movies, William Hutchings; Chapter 2 What Makes Sammy Run?: S. N. Behrman and the Fugitive Kind, Robert F. Gross; Chapter 3 Hollywood as Moral Landscape: Clifford Odets’ The Big Knife, Albert Wertheim; Chapter 4 Hollywood on the Contemporary Stage: Image, Phallic “Players,” and the Culture Industry, Stephen Watt; Chapter 5 Staging Hollywood, Selling Out, Marcia Blumberg; Chapter 6 Sanctity, Seduction or Settling Scores Against the Swine in Speed-the-Plow?, Leslie Kane; Chapter 7 So Dis Is Hollywood: Mamet in Hell, Toby Silverman Zinman; Chapter 8 The Myth of Narcissus: Shepard's True West and Mamet's Speed-the-Plow, Katherine H. Burkman; Chapter 9 Alienation Effects and Exteriorized Subjectivity in Angel City and The Bostonians, RJ LaVelle; Chapter 10 “It's Symbolic!”—Arthur Kopit's Revised Road to Nirvana and Its Portrayal of Hollywood and Society, Todd M. Lidh; Chapter 11 “The Devil Answers”: Drury Pifer's Strindberg in Hollywood, William Kerwin; Chapter 12 The Last Tycoon: Elia Kazan's and Harold Pinter's Unsentimental Hollywood Romance, Christopher C. Hudgins; Chapter 13 Hollywood as Text in the Plays of Christopher Hampton, with Reference to David Rabe and Others, Kimball King; Chapter 14 The Clash of Verbal and Visual (Con)Texts: Adrienne Kennedy's (Re)Construction of Racial Polarities in An Evening with Dead Essex and A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White, E. Barnsley Brown; Chapter 15 Hollywood as Inspiration for the Stage: The Gay Playwrights' Perspective, Robert Gross, Kimball King; Chapter 16 The Matter of Bodies: Women, Pornography, and Hollywood in Marlane Meyer's Etta Jenks, Leslie Frost; Index;