"What Hollywood Can Do"
Movie review
By: James Agee
Date: December 7 and 14, 1946
Source: Agee, James. "What Hollywood Can Do," Time, December 7 and 14, 1946. Reprinted in Agee, James. Agee on Film, vol. 1. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1958, 229–233.
About the Author: James Agee (1909–1955) was a movie critic, screenwriter, poet, and novelist. Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, he attended Harvard University, worked for Fortune in the 1930s, and then reviewed movies for Time and The Nation throughout the 1940s. A Death in the Family (1957), his novel based on his experiences as a six-year-old boy when his father died, was published after his death and won the Pulitzer Prize.
Introduction
At Harvard, James Agee discovered his poetic abilities under the mentorship of the influential critic and poet I. A. Richards. After graduating, Agee began...
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