Words into images : screenwriters on the studio system / Ronald L. Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Ronald L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture authorship.

Motion picture industry--California--Los Angeles.

Motion picture industry.

California--Los Angeles.

Screenwriters--United States--Interviews.

Screenwriters.

United States.

Genre:

Interviews.

Physical Description:

xvi, 226 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2007.

Contents:

Charles Bennett Import from England 3

/ Melville Shavelson From Radio to Movies to Television 20

/ Robert Nathan From the Literary World 37

/ Philip Dunne Son of "Mr. Dooley" 47

/ Ring Lardner, Jr. One of the "Hollywood Ten" 63

/ Robert Pirosh Research and Experience 82

/ Edmund North Seeing Life in Quick Depth 101

/ Julius J. Epstein Making a Living Not Art 120

/ Robert Buckner Hollywood from a Distance 134

/ Oscar Saul Up from Poverty 159

/ William Ludwig The Garbage Man's Dream 171

/ Mary Anita Loos Third-Generation Screenwriter 183

/ Winston Miller Westerns and Pictures about Ordinary People 196.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes filmographies.

ISBN:

1578069645

9781578069644

OCLC:

70839792