The book features previously unpublished manuscripts and
correspondence illustrating case studies of John Dos Passos' screen
writing for Paramount Pictures (1934); his role in writing and
filming The Spanish Earth (1937), a Spanish Civil War relief
project whose circumstances culminated in his public break from the
Left; the 1936 screen treatment he wrote just before The Spanish
Earth in consultation with its director, Joris Ivens; and his
later-career attempts, beginning in the 1940s, to adapt his
radically innovative trilogy U.S.A. directly for the screen and to
realign its leftist politics toward the anti-Communist conservatism
reflected in his work and activism after the 1930s and the
disillusionments of the Spanish Civil War. It thus provides a new
context for and reading of his political reorientation in the 1930s
that not only ended his long friendship with Ernest Hemingway but
also evoked the opprobrium of his former champions on the Left and
redefined his literary career.
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