SOURCES:
As I have had an enduring interest in Hollywood and the movie industry in general, I found that at least ten items of literature sprang immediately to mind. I included these in this blog.
However, I still needed to delve further so my next call was the Los Angeles Times. I located the following article on the Best Books about Los Angeles, for which I provide a link below:
Los Angeles Times article
This article - or list - was a valuable springboard to hitherto unknown writers, some of whom now feature in the blog
I'm grateful to staff at the Paddington Library who introduced me to the poet Charles Bukowski.
I did NOT use sources such as Novelist, Fiction Connection and Fantastic Fiction.
I have referred to the catalogues of the City of Sydney library and The University of NSW library. I have also referred to Amazon Books.
The images and video clips were sourced from Google Images and Youtube, respectively which are in the public domain.
RELEVANCE:
However, I still needed to delve further so my next call was the Los Angeles Times. I located the following article on the Best Books about Los Angeles, for which I provide a link below:
Los Angeles Times article
This article - or list - was a valuable springboard to hitherto unknown writers, some of whom now feature in the blog
I'm grateful to staff at the Paddington Library who introduced me to the poet Charles Bukowski.
I did NOT use sources such as Novelist, Fiction Connection and Fantastic Fiction.
I have referred to the catalogues of the City of Sydney library and The University of NSW library. I have also referred to Amazon Books.
The images and video clips were sourced from Google Images and Youtube, respectively which are in the public domain.
RELEVANCE:
I suspect that the usefulness of my blog is hard to gauge. The students at the AFTRS are majoring in all disciplines: from the strictly technical to the purely creative. No doubt the students involved in creative writing units will gain something from this blog. I hope that all students will be stimulated. Above all, I have attempted to emphasise the importance of story; also that literature consists of a variety of forms and genres. The filmmakers of today should have one eye on the past as they reinterpret the present.
The movie industry is in many respects all about promotion. Many of the items in this blog were heavily promoted through film adaptation. I have made a selection of books which reflect the popular appeal of movie genres (crime, satire etc) but also the more introspective efforts from such writers as Christpoher Isherwood. I tried to insert as many Youtube clips as were appropriate.
The movie industry is in many respects all about promotion. Many of the items in this blog were heavily promoted through film adaptation. I have made a selection of books which reflect the popular appeal of movie genres (crime, satire etc) but also the more introspective efforts from such writers as Christpoher Isherwood. I tried to insert as many Youtube clips as were appropriate.
REJECTED ITEM:
Susann, Jacqueline. Valley of the dolls, London : Cassells, 1966.
The publicity blurb for the paperback edition breathlessly states that Valley of the Dolls " launched Jacqueline Susann on a spectacular but tragically brief career as a bestselling writer". The phrase hadn't been coined in 1966 but Susann had written what we now describe as a work of chick lit fiction.
I have rejected this novel because although it features a major Hollywood star, the narrative takes place mostly in New York. Los Angeles does not figure as either a place or state of mind.
I have rejected this novel because although it features a major Hollywood star, the narrative takes place mostly in New York. Los Angeles does not figure as either a place or state of mind.
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