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Abraham Polonsky [electronic resource] : interviews / edited by Andrew Dickos.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Polonsky, Abraham.
- Series:
- Conversations with Filmmakers Series
- Conversations with filmmakers series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Screenwriters--United States--Interviews.
- Screenwriters.
- Authors, American--20th century--Interviews.
- Authors, American.
- Motion picture producers and directors--United States--Interviews.
- Motion picture producers and directors.
- Polonsky, Abraham--Interviews.
- Polonsky, Abraham.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (230 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- Cover; 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
- Interview with Abraham Polonsky and Walter BernsteinInterview with Abraham Polonsky; Selected Sources; Index;
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Includes filmography.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-85099-0
- 1-62103-067-9
- OCLC:
- 819635410
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