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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462927603321

Autore

Polonsky Abraham

Titolo

Abraham Polonsky [[electronic resource] ] : interviews / / edited by Andrew Dickos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2013

ISBN

1-283-85099-0

1-62103-067-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (230 p.)

Collana

Conversations with filmmakers series

Altri autori (Persone)

DickosAndrew <1952->

Disciplina

791.4302/33092

Soggetti

Screenwriters - United States

Authors, American - 20th century

Motion picture producers and directors - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography.

Nota di contenuto

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;

Sommario/riassunto

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 blacklisted during the McCarthy witch hunt.   Polonsky envisioned cinema