Susan Sheridan, writing about I'm Dying Laughing, considers the fate of "art and politics under capitalism, where heroics degenerate into farce" in her essay, "Christina Stead's Last Book: The Novel and the Best-Seller." This is a pdf file.
She writes:
Hollywood provided Emily and Stephen’s first lesson in political reality, where they learned that the Party can be the enemy. Their second major political lesson is learned in postwar Europe, and it is one that they cannot just move continents to escape: that collaboration is everywhere, and may be the condition of survival.
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