| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 252 pages) |
| Contents |
Part I (1917-1928). 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 (1918) -- Soviet film : montage, the camera eye, and ideology -- Part II (1934-1937). From Paramount Studios to the Spanish front: writing Hollywood, filming history -- "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 ... Wartimes" -- Part III (1937-1970). From page to stage to screens: adapting U.S.A. and "the truth as I see it" -- Filmic narrative into narrative film : "politics and the silver screen." |
| Summary |
"The first study of his little-known screen writing, John Dos Passos and Motion Pictures: Writing Film, Film Writing draws on previously unpublished manuscripts and letters to explore his cinematic methods and his controversial mid-career conservative political shift"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 11, 2020) |
| Subject |
Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970 -- Motion picture plays
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Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970 -- Political and social views
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| SUBJECT |
Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970 fast |
| Subject |
Literary studies: from c 1900.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Motion picture plays
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Political and social views
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019011303 |
| ISBN |
9781942954880 |
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1942954883 |
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9781789629781 |
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1789629780 |
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