To the Film Industry in Crisis (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Frank O’Hara
- First Published: 1957
- Type of Work: Poem
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Acting or actors, Art or artists, Films, movies, or motion pictures, Hollywood, Entertaining or entertainers, Industry
“To the Film Industry in Crisis” is a love letter from O’Hara to the most popular and accessible of the arts: motion pictures. The poem begins by excluding serious and pompous arts such as “experimental theatre” and “Grand Opera.” The speaker rejects also “lean quarterlies and swarthy periodicals,” because they, too, are for the elite, not the masses. The speaker does not merely approve of the “Motion Picture Industry” but declares his love and devotion to it. The title's emphasis on Hollywood as an industry effectively distinguishes the filmmaking world from the...
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