Authors on Film Edited by Harry M. Geduld.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Geduld, Harry M., compiler.

Contributor:

Geduld, Harry M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures and literature.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 303 pages)

Place of Publication:

Indiana University Press 1972

Bloomington, Indiana University Press [1972]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Writers have been deeply involved with film virtually from its inception in the 1890's down to the present moment. Their involvement is a story of transition from wonder and optimism about the new medium to a gradual disenchantment and a growing tendency to regard cinema as a destructive rival rather than a creative partner. Authors on Film reflects the wide range of attitudes toward film as the world 's most celebrated writers candidly express their opinions. The articles include studies of the silent film and the transition to sound, general statements on the film medium and the film-maker, discussions of the problems of screenwriting, and descriptions of the Hollywood scene, past and present. Among the thirty- five contributors are James Baldwin, Bertolt Brecht, Jean Cocteau, John Dos Passos, T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Andre Gide, Maxim Gorky, Aldous Huxley, Jack Kerouac, Thomas Mann, Somerset Maugham, Jean-Paul Sartre, Bernard Shaw, Upton Sinclair, Leo Tolstoy, H. G. Wells, and Virginia Woolf.

Contents:

From Silence to Sound: Maxim Gorky / The kingdom of shadows

Frank Norris / McTeague at the movies

Lev Tolstoy / It may turn out to be a powerful thing

Upton Sinclair / Nickelodeons and common shows

Over the hill

Jean-Paul Sartre / Childhood memories

Carl Sandburg / The cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Andre Gide / Nosteratu

Jack Kerouac / Nosteratu

Bertolt Brecht / On the gold rush: "Less Security"

H.G. Wells / The silliest film: Will machinery make robots of men?

Aldous Huxley / Silence is golden

The Medium and Its Messages: W.D. Howells / Editor's easy chair

Virginia Woolf / The movies and reality

H.L. Mencken / Appendix from Moronia

Jack London / The message of motion pictures

G.K. Chesterton / On the movies

About the films

G. Bernard Shaw / On cinema

Heinrich Mann / On The blue angel: Heinrich Mann to Karl Lemke

The blue angel is shown to me

Thomas Mann / On the film

Bertolt Brecht / Concern music for the film

Graham Greene / Three reviews

Louis Aragon / What is art, Jean-Luc Godard?

Authors on Screenwriting: Henry Arthur Jones / The dramatist and the photoplay

Tom Antongini / D'Annunzio and film

W. Somerset Maugham / On writing for the films

Bertolt Brecht / Concerning the film

T.S. Eliot / Preface to the film version of Murder in the Cathedral

Truman Capote / The writer and motion pictures

William Faulkner / The writer and motion pictures

The Hollywood Experience: William Faulkner / My Hollywood experience

Theodore Dreiser / The real sins of Hollywood

F. Scott Fitzgerald / Letter to his daughter

James T. Farrell / The language of Hollywood

Of Mice and Movie Stars: E.M. Forster / Mickey and Minnie

Jean Cocteau / Encounter with Chaplin

Carl Sandburg / Says Chaplin could play serious drama

Margaret Reid / Has the flapper changed? (Interview with F. Scott Fitzgerald)

H.L. Mencken / Appendix from Moronia: Valentino.

John Dos Passos / Adagio dancer (on Valentino)

Ernest Hemingway / A tribute to mamma from papa Hemingway (On Marlene Dietrich)

James Baldwin / Sidney Poitier.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-253-04930-X

OCLC:

574142996

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access