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Letters and Literacy in Hollywood Film

Palgrave Macmillan

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Part of the book series: Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television (CRFT)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
  2. Introduction: Letter from an Unknown Woman

    • Edward Gallafent
    Pages 1-19
  3. Into the Wild: The New Unreadable America

    • Edward Gallafent
    Pages 61-88
  4. The Reader: Embracing Reading, Denying Writing

    • Edward Gallafent
    Pages 89-113
  5. Conclusion: The Intimacy of Writing

    • Edward Gallafent
    Pages 114-127
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 128-142

About this book

We are so used to images of words that it is easy to ignore the different ways in which they work in films. This book explores both the letters that come in the post and the many other kinds that are offered to us on screen.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Warwick, UK

    Edward Gallafent

About the author

Edward Gallafent teaches Film Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. He is the author of Clint Eastwood: Actor and Director (1994), Astaire and Rogers (2000) and Quentin Tarantino (2006). He is a member of the Editorial Board of the online publication Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism.

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