LEADER 03232nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910786578703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-85099-0 010 $a1-62103-067-9 035 $a(CKB)2670000000308269 035 $a(EBL)1074096 035 $a(OCoLC)819635410 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000782561 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11419645 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000782561 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10752823 035 $a(PQKB)11089815 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1074096 035 $a(OCoLC)843777429 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse24805 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1074096 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10634392 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000308269 100 $a20120705d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAbraham Polonsky$b[electronic resource] $einterviews /$fedited by Andrew Dickos 210 $aJackson $cUniversity Press of Mississippi$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (230 p.) 225 0$aConversations with filmmakers series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-61703-660-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 320 $aIncludes filmography. 327 $aCover; 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 327 $aInterview with Abraham Polonsky and Walter BernsteinInterview with Abraham Polonsky; Selected Sources; Index; 330 $aAbraham Polonsky (1910-1999), screenwriter and filmmaker of the mid-twentieth-century Left, recognized his writerly mission to reveal the aspirations of his characters in a material society structured to undermine their hopes. In the process, he ennobled their struggle. His auspicious beginning in Hollywood reached a zenith with his Oscar-nominated screenplay for Robert Rossen's boxing noir, Body and Soul (1947), and his inaugural film as writer and director, Force of Evil (1948), before he was blacklisted during the McCarthy witch hunt. Polonsky envisioned cinema 410 0$aConversations with Filmmakers Series 606 $aScreenwriters$zUnited States$vInterviews 606 $aAuthors, American$y20th century$vInterviews 606 $aMotion picture producers and directors$zUnited States$vInterviews 615 0$aScreenwriters 615 0$aAuthors, American 615 0$aMotion picture producers and directors 676 $a791.4302/33092 700 $aPolonsky$b Abraham$01513143 701 $aDickos$b Andrew$f1952-$01513144 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786578703321 996 $aAbraham Polonsky$93747402 997 $aUNINA