Hollywood Values

Tagline: We watch the same movies, but we don't see the same movies. Hollywood Values makes a heroic effort to show that Hollywood bashing doesn't have it right. Good things are coming out of Hollywood. This book proves it.

A semi-retired professor of literature, Steven C. Scheer earned a Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University in 1974. He taught for just about 30 years in a liberal arts college as well as in several universities. He wrote many essays and a couple of books (the last is Pious Impostures and Unproven Words, a study of the works of such classic American writers as Hawthorne, Melville, and Mark Twain). He was always popular with his students, partly because of his irrepressible enthusiasm and partly because he invented such 'fun' assignments (about which he also published an essay) as 'The Fictitious Term Paper.' When the liberal arts college for which he taught for decades went out of business, Steven C. Scheer decided on a new career. When he was young he really wanted to be a writer, so now at the age of 60 he is starting all over again. Hollywood Values is his first offering as a full-time writer. It is an act of love, as it were, based on a lifelong appreciation of good movies, along with plays and novels and poems, of course. He is already at work on his next book (Love & Death & Sex & Marriage), for which the groundwork has been laid years ago in his teaching of certain courses that touch upon the development of romantic love in Europe and America. Wish him luck.