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Abraham Polonsky : interviews /
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 H...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
©2013.
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| Colección: | Conversations with filmmakers series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 a. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxvii, 201 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Includes filmography. |
| ISBN: | 9781621030676 1621030679 9781617036613 1617036617 1617036609 9781617036606 |