John Dos Passos and Cinema
- Paperback
264 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2022
Summary
The book features previously unpublished manuscripts and correspondence illustrating case studies of John Dos Passos’ screen writing for Paramount Pictures (1934); his role in writing and filming The Spanish Earth (1937), a Spanish Civil War relief project whose circumstances culminated in his public break from the Left; the 1936 screen treatment he wrote just before The Spanish Earth in consultation with its director, Joris Ivens; and his later-career attempts, beginning in…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781802070262 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1802070265 |
| Author: | Lisa Nanney |
| Publisher: | Liverpool University Press |
| Imprint: | Liverpool University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 264 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2022 |
| Weight: | 402g |
| Dimensions: | 239mm x 163mm |
| Series: | Clemson University Press w/ LUP |
You Can Find This Book In
What They're Saying
Critics Review
‘A rich and engrossing book… John Dos Passos and Cinema will be the authoritative work on this aspect of Dos Passos’s career and aesthetics for some time. But it also provides fresh insights into the perennial topic of his political biography and his shift to the right, as well as providing superb detail on the specifics of the networks and aesthetics of transnational, intermedial experiment on the left that galvanized modernist culture in the 1920s and 1930s.’
Mark Whalan, Modernism/modernity
About The Author
Lisa Nanney
Lisa Nanney held faculty positions at University of North Carolina affiliates and Georgetown University School of Foreign Service-Qatar. She co-edited and co-authored the 2017 study of John Dos Passos’s visual works, The Paintings and Drawings of John Dos Passos: A Collection and Study (Clemson University Press). Her current book, John Dos Passos and Cinema (2019), further explores the intersection of his narrative methods and the visual arts by investigating his writing directly for the cinema, his translation of modernist fictional techniques to the screen, and the ways these forays into film writing were shaped by his re-evaluation of the Left at a pivotal point in his career. Nanney is also the author of John Dos Passos Revisited (Macmillan Press, 1998), a critical biography.
Returns
This item is eligible for free returns within 30 days of delivery. See our returns policy for further details.