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Film Flam: Essays On Hollywood

by Larry McMurtry · 1987

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Offers a collection of essays on Hollywood, including The Screenplay as Non-Book: A Consideration, Character, the Tube, and the Death of Movies, The Disappearance of Love.

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adult
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short · 159 pages
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