• Payam Saeidy

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Hollywood, which is popular as an entertainment industry is a powerful media that has
recently been at the center of criticism for the critics of capitalism. Sam Shepard, the American
playwright wrote a play dealing with Hollywood industry. Angel City (1976) is a work that
shows how Subjects are manipulated in Hollywood. Among the different ways of analyzing the
Hollywoodian productions is the psychoanalytic interpretation of alienation caused by this
industry. This essay mainly deals with Julia Kristeva’s theories and these theories are adapted to
“Angel city”; The article will show how the actors and actresses themselves are mesmerized by
the movies. It is discussed that moneymaking is the main reason for the moguls to form the minds
of subjects.

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