Authors on Film / Edited by Harry M. Geduld.
Writers have been deeply involved with film virtually from its inception in the 1890's down to the present moment. Their involvement is a story of transition from wonder and optimism about the new medium to a gradual disenchantment and a growing tendency to regard cinema as a destructive rival...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, [1972] ©[1972] |
| Year of Publication: | 1972 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 303 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- From Silence to Sound: Maxim Gorky / The kingdom of shadows
- Frank Norris / McTeague at the movies
- Lev Tolstoy / It may turn out to be a powerful thing
- Upton Sinclair / Nickelodeons and common shows
- Over the hill
- Jean-Paul Sartre / Childhood memories
- Carl Sandburg / The cabinet of Dr. Caligari
- Andre Gide / Nosteratu
- Jack Kerouac / Nosteratu
- Bertolt Brecht / On the gold rush: "Less Security"
- H.G. Wells / The silliest film: Will machinery make robots of men?
- Aldous Huxley / Silence is golden
- The Medium and Its Messages: W.D. Howells / Editor's easy chair
- Virginia Woolf / The movies and reality
- H.L. Mencken / Appendix from Moronia
- Jack London / The message of motion pictures
- G.K. Chesterton / On the movies
- About the films
- G. Bernard Shaw / On cinema
- Heinrich Mann / On The blue angel: Heinrich Mann to Karl Lemke
- The blue angel is shown to me
- Thomas Mann / On the film
- Bertolt Brecht / Concern music for the film
- Graham Greene / Three reviews
- Louis Aragon / What is art, Jean-Luc Godard?
- Authors on Screenwriting: Henry Arthur Jones / The dramatist and the photoplay
- Tom Antongini / D'Annunzio and film
- W. Somerset Maugham / On writing for the films
- Bertolt Brecht / Concerning the film
- T.S. Eliot / Preface to the film version of Murder in the Cathedral
- Truman Capote / The writer and motion pictures
- William Faulkner / The writer and motion pictures
- The Hollywood Experience: William Faulkner / My Hollywood experience
- Theodore Dreiser / The real sins of Hollywood
- F. Scott Fitzgerald / Letter to his daughter
- James T. Farrell / The language of Hollywood
- Of Mice and Movie Stars: E.M. Forster / Mickey and Minnie
- Jean Cocteau / Encounter with Chaplin
- Carl Sandburg / Says Chaplin could play serious drama
- Margaret Reid / Has the flapper changed? (Interview with F. Scott Fitzgerald)
- H.L. Mencken / Appendix from Moronia: Valentino.
- John Dos Passos / Adagio dancer (on Valentino)
- Ernest Hemingway / A tribute to mamma from papa Hemingway (On Marlene Dietrich)
- James Baldwin / Sidney Poitier.