Three More Screenplays by Preston Sturges: The Power and the Glory, Easy Living, and Remember the Night - Hardcover

Sturges, Preston

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520210034 ISBN 13: 9780520210035

Verlag: University of California Press, 1998

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This volume of scripts focuses on three screenplays written but not directed by Preston Sturges. Included are "The Power and the Glory", which influenced Welles in the conception of "Citizen Kane", and the romantic comedies "Remember the Night" and "Easy Living". The scripts cast light on Sturges collaboration with directors Mitchell Leisen and William K. Howard and in the introduction Andrew Horton analyzes the contributions of Sturges to the film comedy genre and to Hollywood film history.

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Preston Sturges (1898-1959) was a member of Hollywood's gifted royalty. He wrote, directed, and produced a remarkable number of successful films, and wrote and produced for the Broadway stage. Andrew Horton, Jeanne H. Smith Professor of Film Studies at the University of Oklahoma, is the author of Writing the Character-Centered Screenplay (California, 1993) and coeditor (with Stuart McDougal) of Play It Again, Sam (California, 1998). Tom Sturges, who conceived this series of books, is the general manager of Los Angeles-based T.W.Is.M. Records. He is working on a one-man play about the life of his father, Preston Sturges.

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"There's never been a writer for the American screen like Preston Sturges, who exhilaratingly and wittingly combined all the qualities necessary to take a film from inception through screenplay to set to screen. These are three scripts Sturges did not direct, unfortunately; they are, as a result, only OK movies, while the screenplays remain brilliant."—Peter Bogdanovich

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"There's never been a writer for the American screen like Preston Sturges, who exhilaratingly and wittingly combined all the qualities necessary to take a film from inception through screenplay to set to screen. These are three scripts Sturges did not direct, unfortunately; they are, as a result, only OK movies, while the screenplays remain brilliant."Peter Bogdanovich

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of California Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0520210034
• ISBN 13: 9780520210035
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 500
• Herausgeber: Horton Andrew
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