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Words Into Images: Screenwriters on the Studio System
Contributor(s): Davis, Ronald L. (Author)

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 ISBN: 1578069645     ISBN-13: 9781578069644
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: April 2007
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Annotation: An unprecedented view of Hollywood's Golden Age
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BISAC Categories:
- Drama | American - General
- Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism
- Performing Arts | Film - Screenwriting
Dewey: 812.030
LCCN: 2006025515
Physical Information: 0.93" H x 6.44" W x 9.24" L (1.12 lbs) 224 pages
Features: Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
 
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Words into Images: Screenwriters on the Studio System is an engaging look into the inner workings of Hollywood's big studio system as experienced by thirteen veteran screenwriters. All taped between 1980 and 1991 and all previously unpublished, these interviews are novel and insightful. Interviewer Ronald L. Davis draws the screenwriters into explorations of a broad range of topics, including studio politics, production problems, frustrations caused by directors and producers, and the contributions and difficulties presented by movie stars.

In most cases, these writers were resigned to being part of a team assigned the high-pressure, high-volume task of turning out commercial entertainment for mass audiences. Sometimes they knew they were working on low-budget productions or rehashes of previous projects. Yet these conversations reveal how writers found satisfaction in jobs well done and aspired to graduate to quality films. In some cases, they labored on novels or plays penned during private hours.

Conducted after all the writers had retired from or moved beyond the studio system, these interviews offer a candid, vivid, under-documented vision of American moviemaking during Hollywood's heyday.

Interviews were with Charles Bennett, Robert Buckner, Julius J. Epstein, Philip Dunne, Ring Lardner, Jr., Mary Anita Loos, William Ludwig, Winston Miller, Robert Nathan, Edmund North, Robert Pirosh, Oscar Saul, and Melville Shavelson.

Contributor Bio(s): Davis, Ronald L.: - Ronald L. Davis is professor emeritus of history at Southern Methodist University. He is author of Just Making Movies: Company Directors on the Studio System, Words into Images: Screenwriters on the Studio System, Zachary Scott: Hollywood's Sophisticated Cad, and Van Johnson: MGM's Golden Boy, all published by University Press of Mississippi.
 
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