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Into America's Dream-Dump
Bruce Chipman
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Description for Into America's Dream-Dump
Paperback. Num Pages: 246 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 151 x 13. Weight in Grams: 331.
This fascinating study explores the Hollywood novel as a culmination of the American Dream and a symbol of its betrayal. Born of promise and hope yet focused on immediate gratification and profit, Hollywood mirrors the contradictions inherent in the myth of the American Dream. The history of the development of the Hollywood novel reflects the deterioration of the American Dream during the 20th century as it has passed from utopian promise through decadence to nightmare and apocalypse. Along these lines, the genre provides a metaphor for the growing sense of futility, loss of hope, and increasing sense of chaos that ... Read more
This fascinating study explores the Hollywood novel as a culmination of the American Dream and a symbol of its betrayal. Born of promise and hope yet focused on immediate gratification and profit, Hollywood mirrors the contradictions inherent in the myth of the American Dream. The history of the development of the Hollywood novel reflects the deterioration of the American Dream during the 20th century as it has passed from utopian promise through decadence to nightmare and apocalypse. Along these lines, the genre provides a metaphor for the growing sense of futility, loss of hope, and increasing sense of chaos that ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
Number of Pages
246
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780761814665
SKU
V9780761814665
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About Bruce Chipman
Bruce Chipman is Head of the English Department at Tatnall School and an Adjunct Associate Professor of English at the University of Delaware.
Reviews for Into America's Dream-Dump
...what is postmodern about the study is the time in which it is written, not its methodology; the readings are more traditional examinations of character, setting, and theme than poststructuralist or postmodern disassemblings.
R. D. Newman, University of South Carolina
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R. D. Newman, University of South Carolina
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