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Scénaristes --- Screenwriters --- Biographies.
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The first of two volumes on American screenwriters planned for the Dictionary of Literary Biography contains studies of the careers of 65 significant motion-picture writers. It includes only those writers who wrote primarily for the screen or those who wrote in other media but had noteworthy film achievements. It does not include novelists who wrote for motion-pictures part-time, such as Faulkner, playwrights such as Neil Simon who adapted their own works to films, and performers such as Charlie Chaplin who wrote their own material. Each entry begins with a list of credits in all media -- motion pictures, television, books, plays, periodical publications -- and includes a bio-filmographic essay, bibliographic refrences, photograph of the writer, and stills from their films. Among the screenwriters included are: James Agee, Clifford Odets, Ben Hecht, Herman Mankiewicz, Sidney Howard, and John Huston.
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Motion picture authorship --- Screenwriters --- Women screenwriters --- Interviews --- Interviews
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A vibrant portrait of one of the most accomplished and prolific American screenwriters, by an award-winning biographer and essayistHe was, according to Pauline Kael, "the greatest American screenwriter." Jean-Luc Godard called him "a genius" who "invented 80 percent of what is used in Hollywood movies today." Besides tossing off dozens of now-classic scripts-including Scarface, Twentieth Century, and Notorious-Ben Hecht was known in his day as ace reporter, celebrated playwright, taboo-busting novelist, and the most quick-witted of provocateurs. During World War II, he also emerged as an outspoken crusader for the imperiled Jews of Europe, and later he became a fierce propagandist for pre-1948 Palestine's Jewish terrorist underground. Whatever the outrage he stirred, this self-declared "child of the century" came to embody much that defined America-especially Jewish America-in his time.Hecht's fame has dimmed with the decades, but Adina Hoffman's vivid portrait brings this charismatic and contradictory figure back to life on the page. Hecht was a renaissance man of dazzling sorts, and Hoffman-critically acclaimed biographer, former film critic, and eloquent commentator on Middle Eastern culture and politics-is uniquely suited to capture him in all his modes.
Screenwriters --- Jewish authors --- Hecht, Ben,
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