| Description |
xiii, 303 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
From silence to sound -- The kingdom of shadows / Maxim Gorky -- McTeague at the movies / Frank Norris-- It may turn out to be a powerful thing / Lev Tolstoy -- Nickelodeons and common shows ; Over the hill / Upton Sinclair -- Childhood memories / Jean-Paul Sartre -- The cabinet of Dr. Caligari / Carl Sandburg -- Nosferatu / Andre Gide -- Nosferatu / Jack Kerouac -- On the gold rush : "Less Security" / Bertolt Brecht -- The silliest film : will machinery make robots of men? / H.G. Wells -- Silence is golden / Aldous Huxley -- The medium and Its messages -- Editor's easy chair / W.D. Howells -- The movies and reality / Virginia Woolf -- Appendix from Moronia / H.L. Mencken -- The message of motion pictures / Jack London -- On the movies ; About the films / G.K. Chesterton -- On cinema / G. Bernard Shaw -- On The blue angel : Heinrich Mann to Karl Lemke ; The blue angel is shown to me / Heinrich Mann -- On the film / Thomas Mann -- Concern music for the film / Bertolt Brecht -- Three reviews / Graham Greene -- What is art, Jean-Luc Godard? / Louis Aragon -- Authors on screenwriting -- The dramatist and the photoplay / Henry Arthur Jones -- D'Annunzio and film / Tom Antongini -- On writing for the films / W. Somerset Maugham -- Concerning the film / Bertolt Brecht -- Preface to the film version of Murder in the Cathedral / T.S. Eliot -- The writer and motion pictures / Truman Capote -- The writer and motion pictures / William Faulkner -- The Hollywood experience -- My Hollywood experience / William Faulkner -- The real sins of Hollywood / Theodore Dreiser -- Letter to his daughter / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The language of Hollywood / James T. Farrell -- Of mice and movie stars -- Mickey and Minnie / E.M. Forster -- Encounter with Chaplin / Jean Cocteau -- Says Chaplin could play serious drama / Carl Sandburg -- Has the flapper changed? (Interview with F. Scott Fitzgerald) / Margaret Reid -- Appendix from Moronia : Valentino / H.L. Mencken -- Adagio dancer (on Valentino) / John Dos Passos -- A tribute to Mamma from Papa Hemingway (On Marlene Dietrich) / Ernest Hemingway -- Sidney Poitier / James Baldwin |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Also issued online |
| Subject |
Motion pictures and literature.
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Motion pictures.
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| Author |
Geduld, Harry M.
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| LC no. |
72075390 |
| ISBN |
0253310806 |
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