Abraham Polonsky: interviews

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Abraham Polonsky (1910-1999), screenwriter and filmmaker of the mid-twentieth-century Left, recognized his writerly mission to reveal the aspirations of his characters in a material society structured to undermine their hopes. In the process, he ennobled their struggle. His auspicious beginning in Hollywood reached a zenith with his Oscar-nominated screenplay for Robert Rossen's boxing noir, Body and Soul (1947), and his inaugural film as writer and director, Force of Evil (1948), before he was…

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Full title :Abraham Polonsky : interviews / edited by Andrew Dickos.

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Publication Date:2013.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University Press of Mississippi
Place of Publication:Jackson
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013.

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Description:1 online resource (256 pages).

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ISBN:9781621030676, 1621030679, 1617036609, 9781617036606, 9781617036613, 1617036617, 1283850990, 9781283850995
oclc:ocn843777429
LC Classification:PS3531.O377
Dewey Decimal:791.4302/33092

Cover; Contents; Introduction; Chronology; Filmography and Bibliography; The Best Years of Our Lives: A Review; Odd Man Out and Monsieur Verdoux; Hemingway and Chaplin; A Utopian Experience; Conversations with Abraham Polonsky; Interview with Abraham Polonsky; Interview with Abraham Polonsky; Interview with Abraham Polonsky; Interview with Abraham Polonsky; How the Blacklist Worked in Hollywood; Making Movies; Abraham Polonsky: Interview; On John Garfield; "A Pavane for an Early American": Abraham Polonsky Discusses Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here

Interview with Abraham Polonsky and Walter BernsteinInterview with Abraham Polonsky; Selected Sources; Index;

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Authors, American Authors, American -- Interviews. -- 20t… Écrivains américains -- Entretiens. -- … interviews Motion picture producers and directors Motion picture producers and directors … Polonsky, Abraham Producteurs et réalisateurs de cinéma -… Scénaristes -- Entretiens. -- États-Unis Screenwriters Screenwriters -- Interviews. -- United … United States