Hollywood & Gangsters: Joan Didion - Play It as It Lays (1970; film 1972)

Film and Talk with Scott Stelle, d.a.i. Tübingen. Join us for a monthly multimedia exploration of popular literature and film. The “Hollywood novel” is a genre about southern California's motion picture industry and its glamorous culture of studio heads, starlets, screenwriters, etc. This quarter we shall read novels about the nihilistic “dream factory” as well as its connection with the criminal underworld, organized labor and blacklists. California is also the home of the “hard-boiled” detective story, a genre that has been masterfully translated to the screen as film noir.

In English

Location: d.a.i. conference room

Admission: free for members, donations welcome

Further dates: Fr. 01.12. Thomas Pynchon - Inherent Vice (2009; film 2014)

Foto Copyright: Shinya Suzuki - flickr.com