This book intensely explores the interaction of film and fiction, both thematic and stylistic, by focusing on the work of three very major American fiction writers whose involvement with the film world, Hollywood, script-writing and movie-making is too well documented to be dismissed as either incidental or accidental. The three writers, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, are placed in the broader perspective of their time and place so that they also become exemplars of the general trend in the writing of the period. Thus the exploration goes beyond a discovery of stray visual resemblances between the scenic effects they create and the modus operandi of the cinema. These three contemporaries, were writing in a period when the new art form of filmmaking, in all its gloss, was rapidly expanding its horizons, especially in America, and reaching out towards new techniques and innovations. Thus a subjective writer like William Faulkner, who, through his impact on New Wave cinema has influenced film as profoundly as he has influenced modern literature; an objective one like Ernest Hemingway, and the prolific F. Scott Fitzgerald, each in his own particular way, turn indubitably to the various stylistic methods found in film. Thus, in an age when the interdisciplinary study of the arts is encouraged, the film is used as an avenue of approach to elucidate, appreciate and evaluate the fiction-writers’ oeuvre.