John Dos Passos and cinema
by Nanney, Lisa
The first study of his little-known screen writing John Dos Passos and Motion Pictures: Writing Film Film Writing uses unpublished manuscripts and correspondence to explore how he adapted film aesthetics to structure his modernist novels of the 1920s and 1930s then beginning in the 1940s attempted to revise those novels directly into screenplays reflecting the controversial conservative political shift that redefined his later literary career.
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- Full title :John Dos Passos and cinema / Lisa Nanney.
Summary
The first study of his little-known screen writing John Dos Passos and Motion Pictures: Writing Film Film Writing uses unpublished manuscripts and correspondence to explore how he adapted film aesthetics to structure his modernist novels of the 1920s and 1930s then beginning in the 1940s attempted to revise those novels directly into screenplays reflecting the controversial conservative political shift that redefined his later literary career.
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- Publication Date:2019.
- Edition:1st ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Clemson University Press
- Place of Publication:Clemson, South Carolina
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2019.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (1 recurso electrónico (viii, 252 p.))
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781942954880, 1942954883
- oclc:on1198285885
- Dewey Decimal:812/.52
Table of Contents
From the stage to the screen : "goin' to the movies..." in the Great War and the 1920s -- Experimental drama and Soviet constructivist theater -- The birth of an industry : setting the stage for the screen -- "Propaganda for peace": film and narrative in one man's initiation : 1917 (1920), Three soldiers (1921), and D.W. Griffith's Hearts of the world -- Soviet film : montage, the camera eye, and ideology -- "The world's greatest center of...propaganda" : Hollywood, the devil is a woman, and the big money -- Film writing : "dreamfactory," meta-film, and the politics of form -- Filming history and the Spanish earth : "what a man and a comrade has to do in -- Wartime" -- Filmic narrative into narrative film : "politics and the silver screen."
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