Ben Hecht : fighting words, moving pictures /

"He was, according to Pauline Kael, 'the greatest American screenwriter.' Jean-Luc Godard called him 'a genius' who 'invented 80 percent of what is used in Hollywood movies today.' Besides tossing off dozens of now-classic scripts--including Scarface, Twentieth Cen...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hoffman, Adina (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]
Series:Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.)
Subjects:
Hecht, Ben, > 1894-1964.
Screenwriters > United States > Biography.
Jewish authors > United States > Biography.
Authors, American > Biography.
Scénaristes > États-Unis > Biographies.
Écrivains juifs > États-Unis > Biographies.
Écrivains américains > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
DRAMA > American.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Entertainment & Performing Arts.
Authors, American.
Jewish authors.
Screenwriters.
United States.
collective biographies.
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: The man
  • The root
  • The news
  • The world
  • The times
  • The screen
  • The rogues
  • The Jews
  • The cry
  • The flag
  • The child
  • Epilogue: The end.

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