Framework: A History of Screenwriting in the American Film, Third Edition

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Syracuse University Press, Nov 1, 2000 - Performing Arts - 323 pages

Updated and expanded for the third edition, this volume combines scholarship with movie lore to present a comprehensive account of the development and influence of the American screenwriter. The text is written in an informal style and includes anecdotes and stories that spotlight writer's creative work and their struggle to achieve recognition.

 

Contents

Starting Up
3
Early Writing
7
Griffith and Woods
17
Silent Comedy
27
Titles
35
Ince and Sullivan
41
The Studio Period 19201950
49
Silent Studios
51
Independent Screenwriters
114
WriterProducers
123
WriterDirectors
129
The Guild
136
The Party
144
Independent Production 19502000
153
Decline of the Studios
155
The Black Market
164

Sound
57
Visitors from the East
63
MetroGoldwynMayer
70
Twentieth CenturyFox
77
Warner Brothers
85
Paramount
93
Columbia
100
Other Studios Other Writing
105
Projects
176
European Influences
186
Comic Independents
208
Hustlers
228
Quentin and Jane
245
TwentyTwo Subjects for Further Research
261
Index
295
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About the author (2000)

Tom Stempel is a professor of cinema at Los Angeles City College. He is the author of five books, including Storytellers to the Nation: A History of American Television Writing (also published by Syracuse University Press) and Talking Back to the Screen: American Moviegoing since 1948 from the Audiences’ Point of View. His articles on film have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Film Comment, and Sight and Sound.

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