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Tough As Nails : The Life and Films of Richard Brooks.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Wisconsin Film StudiesPublisher: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (262 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780299251239
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Tough As NailsDDC classification:
  • 791.4302/33092 B
LOC classification:
  • PN1998
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Hollywood by Way of Philadelphia -- 2. Writing Movies at Home and at War -- 3. Swell Guys, Brutes, and the Blacklist -- 4. In the Director's Chair at MGM -- 5. Writing and Rocking around the Clock -- 6. Taking Literature from Page to Screen -- 7. Independence and That Old-Time Religion -- 8. Two Hits and One Major Miss -- 9. A Journey into Capote Country -- 10. On Marriage, Larceny, and America's Beauty -- 11. New Directions and Two Wrong Turns -- Conclusion -- Filmography -- Notes on Sources -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: This first biography of Oscar-winning filmmaker Richard Brooks, writer-director ofElmer GantryandCat on a Hot Tin Roof, restores to importance the career of one of the mid-twentieth century's most influential Hollywood figures and includes analysis of Brooks's filmography and interviews with stars Sidney Poitier and Jean Simmons, Brooks's wife for twenty years.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Hollywood by Way of Philadelphia -- 2. Writing Movies at Home and at War -- 3. Swell Guys, Brutes, and the Blacklist -- 4. In the Director's Chair at MGM -- 5. Writing and Rocking around the Clock -- 6. Taking Literature from Page to Screen -- 7. Independence and That Old-Time Religion -- 8. Two Hits and One Major Miss -- 9. A Journey into Capote Country -- 10. On Marriage, Larceny, and America's Beauty -- 11. New Directions and Two Wrong Turns -- Conclusion -- Filmography -- Notes on Sources -- Bibliography -- Index.

This first biography of Oscar-winning filmmaker Richard Brooks, writer-director ofElmer GantryandCat on a Hot Tin Roof, restores to importance the career of one of the mid-twentieth century's most influential Hollywood figures and includes analysis of Brooks's filmography and interviews with stars Sidney Poitier and Jean Simmons, Brooks's wife for twenty years.

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