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Words Into Images: Screenwriters on the Studio System Hardback - 2007

by Ronald L. Davis

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Words into Images: Screenwriters on the Studio System is an engaging look into the inner workings of Hollywood's big studio system as experienced by thirteen veteran screenwriters. All taped between 1980 and 1991 and all previously unpublished, these interviews are novel and insightful. Interviewer Ronald L. Davis draws the screenwriters into explorations of a broad range of topics, including studio politics, production problems, frustrations caused by directors and producers, and the contributions and difficulties presented by movie stars.

In most cases, these writers were resigned to being part of a team assigned the high-pressure, high-volume task of turning out commercial entertainment for mass audiences. Sometimes they knew they were working on low-budget productions or rehashes of previous projects. Yet these conversations reveal how writers found satisfaction in jobs well done and aspired to graduate to quality films. In some cases, they labored on novels or plays penned during private hours.

Conducted after all the writers had retired from or moved beyond the studio system, these interviews offer a candid, vivid, under-documented vision of American moviemaking during Hollywood's heyday.

Interviews were with Charles Bennett, Robert Buckner, Julius J. Epstein, Philip Dunne, Ring Lardner, Jr., Mary Anita Loos, William Ludwig, Winston Miller, Robert Nathan, Edmund North, Robert Pirosh, Oscar Saul, and Melville Shavelson.

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  • Title Words Into Images: Screenwriters on the Studio System
  • Author Ronald L. Davis
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University Press of Mississippi
  • Publication date May 2007
  • Features Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781578069644 / 1578069645
  • Weight 1.12 lbs (0.51 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.24 x 6.44 x 0.93 in (23.47 x 16.36 x 2.36 cm)
  • Category Plays / Drama
  • Library of Congress subjects Motion picture authorship, Screenwriters - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2006025515
  • Dewey Decimal Code 812.030

About the author

Ronald L. Davis is professor emeritus of history at Southern Methodist University. He is author of Just Making Movies: Company Directors on the Studio System, Zachary Scott: Hollywood's Sophisticated Cad, and Van Johnson: MGM's Golden Boy, all published by University Press of Mississippi.
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