DLB 26: American Screenwriters, First Series (Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 26) Hardcover
Publisher: Gale Research Company, 1978.
Edition: Volume 26
Book Condition: New
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0810309173 / 9780810309173
Screenwriters, once only needed to provide continuity and dialogue in the form of title cards for silent movies, achieved true prominence with the advent of sound in 1927. Over the years, as the landscape of American film has evolved into an art form, the screenplay has emerged as a new form of literature. The motion-picture writers covered in American Screenwriters are a representative — yet significant — sampling, ranging from the artistically important to the commercially successful to the relatively obscure.
65 entries include: James Agee, Mel Brooks, Sidney Buchman, Delmore Daves, Horton Foote, Howard Koch, Herman Mankiewicz, Rod Serling, Donald Ogden Stewart, Preston Sturges, and Billy Wilder.
Price: $349.97