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In Movieland, Jerome Charyn mingles his own life as a moviegoer with the history, romance, and sadness of Hollywood. He meets Paul Newman, Viveca Lindfors, and Mae Clark, the actress who was the original bride of Frankenstein; explores Cinecitta, Mussolini's own Hollywood on the Tiber; recalls his own life as Otto Preminger's house writer (and jester) during Preminger's decline; reinvents the lost years and lost stars of the silent era --Irving Thalberg, Gloria Swanson, and Clara Bow -- and seeks out the hieroglyphics of modern Hollywood; writes of the Nazi officer who saved the Cinematheque Francaise and its library of American films; and pays homage to Hollywood's heroes, victims, goddesses, and neglected lords: Louise Brooks, Raymond Chandler, Carole Landis, Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, and more.
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A Guggenheim Fellow, Jerome Charyn has taught at Stanford, Rice, and Princeton, and is currently teaching film history at the American University of Paris. Death of a Tango King is his twenty-eighth novel.
Charyn, the author of 19 novels, including Metropolis ( LJ 10/1/86) and Darlin' Bill (Donald I. Fine, 1985) explores how movies "recapture for us all the splintered signs of our earliest memories, when past, present, and future had no real distinction . . . ." He ruminates on the blasted Hollywood careers of fellow novelists Raymond Chandler and F. Scott Fitzgerald; he meets Paul Newman and Mae Clark (Jimmy Cagney's grapefruit target); and he recalls working for Otto Preminger when that director's career was in disarray. This is a wildly uneven book whose observations range from banal to touching. Charyn also has the jarring habit of dropping quotes into his text without introduction (although he does provide citations at the back of the book). Libraries with bigger film collections may want this; for others, it is a discretionary purchase.
- Thomas Wiener, formerly with "American Film," Washington, D.C.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Thomas Wiener, formerly with "American Film," Washington, D.C.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherPutnam Adult
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0399134239
- ISBN 13 9780399134234
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. movieland: a celebration of that curious dreamscape called Hollywoodâ "a phantom town that has produced a universal myth and invented an image of America that much of the world still embraces. In Movieland, Jerome Charyn mingles his own life as a moviegoer with the history, romance, and sadness of Hollywood, taking an in-depth look at the legendsâ "the studios, the stars, the scandalsâ "to reveal that special quality which has so influenced fiction and popular culture. He meets with Paul Newman, Viveca Lindfors, and Mae Clark, the actress who was the original bride of Frankenstein; explores Cinecitta, Mussolini's own "Hollywood on the Tiber"; unearths the movie palaces that have haunted so many of our childhoods; recalls his own life as Otto Preminger's "house writer" (and jester) during Preminger's decline; visits with Mickey Mouse on his sixtieth birthday; reinvents the lost years and lost stars of the silent eraâ "the nights and days of Irving Thalberg, the Garden of Allah, Gloria Swanson, and Clara Bowâ "and seeks out the hieroglyphics of modern Hollywood; writes of the Nazi officer who saved the Cinematheque Francaise and its library of American films; talks to Arthur Penn, the director of Bonnie and Clyde, about his Dickensian childhood and the madness of moviemaking; attends a festival in a Spanish town that has been turned into a Hollywood street of crime; and pays homage to Hollywood's heroes, victims, goddesses, and neglected lords: Louise Brooks, Raymond Chandler, Carole Landis, Rita Hayworth, Orson WeIIes, and many, many more. Like Metropoliis, which Norman Mailer called "one of the best books on New York I have read," Movieland is a fascinating, entertaining, and insightful tribute to one of our most adored yet puzzling icons. Jerome Charyn was born in the Bronx in 1937. He is currently Visiting Distinguished Professor of English at the City College of New York. His novel Darlin' Bill received the Rosenthal Award of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and he has twice been nominated for France's Prix Medicis Etranger; his graphic novel, The Magician's Wife, received the Prix Alfred at Angoileme in 1986. He has published twenty-two books, including War Cries Over Avenue C, The Catfish Man, Pinocchio's Nose, Blue Eyes, and Metropolis. He lives in Paris and New York. All orders shipped protected in a box. Book. Seller Inventory # 000940
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