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William Faulkner in Hollywood - Screenwriting for the Studios (Hardcover)
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William Faulkner in Hollywood - Screenwriting for the Studios (Hardcover)
Series: The South on Screen Series
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During more than two decades (1932-1954), William Faulkner worked
on approximately fifty screenplays for studios, including MGM, 20th
Century-Fox, and Warner Bros., and was credited on such classic
films as The Big Sleep and To Have and Have Not. The scripts that
Faulkner wrote for film and, later on, television constitute an
extensive and, until now, thoroughly underexplored archival source.
Stefan Solomon not only analyzes the majority of these scripts but
compares them to the novels and short stories Faulkner was writing
at the same time. Solomon's aim is to reconcile two aspects of a
career that were not as distinct as they first might seem: Faulkner
as a screenwriter and Faulkner as a high modernist, Nobel
Prize-winning author. Faulkner's Hollywood sojourns took place
during a period roughly bounded by the publication of Light in
August (1932) and A Fable (1954) and that also saw the publication
of Absalom, Absalom!; Go Down, Moses; and Intruder in the Dust. As
Solomon shows Faulkner attuning himself to the idiosyncrasies of
the screen writing process (a craft he never favored or admired),
he offers insights into Faulkner's compositional practice, thematic
preoccupations, and understanding of both classic cinema and the
emerging medium of television. In the midst of this complex
exchange of media and genres, much of Faulkner's fiction of the
1930s and 1940s was directly influenced by his protracted
engagement with the film industry. Solomon helps us to see a corpus
integrating two vastly different modes of writing and a restless
author, sensitive to the different demands of each. Faulkner was
never simply the southern novelist or the West Coast "hack writer"
but always both at once. Solomon's study shows that Faulkner's
screenplays are crucial in any consideration of his far more
esteemed fiction and that the two forms of writing are more porous
and intertwined than the author himself would have us believe. Here
is a major American writer seen in a remarkably new way.
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