Bøger af Lisa Nanney

The book features previously unpublishedmanuscripts and correspondence illustrating case studies of John Dos Passos screen writingfor Paramount Pictures 1934 his role in writing and filming The Spanish Earth 1937, a SpanishCivil War relief project whose circumstances culminated in his public breakfrom the Left the 1936 screen treatment he wrote just before The Spanish Earth in consultation withits director, Joris Ivens and his later-career attempts, beginning in the1940s, to adapt his radically innovative trilogy U.S.A. directly for the screen and to realign its leftist politicstoward the anti-Communist conservatism reflected in his

"The first study of his little-known screen writing, John Dos Passos and Motion Pictures: Writing Film, Film Writing draws on previously unpublished manuscripts and letters to explore his cinematic methods and his controversial mid-career conservative political shift"--

In addition to being a major twentieth-century author, John Dos Passos painted, principally in watercolor, throughout his career. This book reproduces 68 examples of Dos Passos' art, almost all in full color, presented in two parts containing 13 sections. In Part One, each section is devoted to a similar kind of art work produced within a specific time frame; in Part Two, each section consists of work in a specific genre. The book also includes essays devoted to the history and nature of Dos Passos' work as a pictorial artist and to the relationship of this work to his novels. It concludes with a survey of Dos Passos' art collections, exhibitions, and previous published illustrations and paintings. The book as a whole seeks to demonstrate that Dos Passos' lifelong commitment to and practice of pictorial representation are vital aspects of his career because they confirm and manifest in both verbal and visual stylistics such modernist tendencies as Fauvism, Cubism, and Expressionism. Both the essays and illustrations in this book argue for the importance of Dos Passos' paintings as keys to fully understanding the writer's complex body of work and, in their striking compositions and vibrant colors, as challenging objects of visual pleasure in their own right.