Hollywood Exile, or How I Learned to Love the Blacklist (Texas Film & Media Studies Series) - Hardcover

Gordon, Bernard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0292728271 ISBN 13: 9780292728271

Verlag: University of Texas Press, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Gordon Bernard

Über diesen Titel

Críticas:

"Bernard Gordon was the writer behind some of my favorite movies (but I never knew it). Now, he tells his most riveting story--that of his own colorful career... Fascinating!" --Joe Dante, director "Gordon never pulls his punches in this anecdotal autobiography, filled with intimate details and vivid novelistic pasages. A born story-teller, he writes with warmth and humour, and there's an emotional edge to his razor-sharp recall." - Publishers Weekly "Gordon never pulls his punches in this anecdotal autobiography, filled with intimate details and vivid novelistic passages. A born story-teller, he writes with warmth and humor, and there's an emotional edge to his razor-sharp recall"--Publishers Weekly

Reseña del editor:

The Hollywood blacklist, which began in the late 1940s and ran well into the 1960s, ended or curtailed the careers of hundreds of people accused of having ties to the Communist Party. Bernard Gordon was one of them. In this highly readable memoir, he tells a engrossing insider's story of what it was like to be blacklisted and how he and others continued to work un-credited behind the scenes, writing and producing many box office hits of the era. Gordon describes how the blacklist cut short his screenwriting career in Hollywood and forced him to work in Europe. Ironically, though, his is a success story that includes the films "El Cid", "55 Days at Peking", "The Thin Red Line", "Krakatoa East of Java", "Day of the Triffids", "Earth vs. the Flying Saucers", "Horror Express", and many others. He recounts the making of many movies for which he was the writer and/or producer, with wonderful anecdotes about stars such as Charlton Heston, David Niven, Sophia Loren, Ava Gardner, and James Mason; directors Nicholas Ray, Frank Capra, and Anthony Mann; and the producer-studio head team of Philip Yordan and Samuel Bronston. In 1997, the Writers Guild of America began publicly re-crediting screenplays to their blacklisted authors. Bernard Gordon's name has appeared more often than any other. Now retired after a thirty-year career, he lives in Los Angeles.

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0292728271
• ISBN 13: 9780292728271
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 380