The African Queen and The Night of the Hunter: First and Final Screenplays (The Works of James Agee, Volume 4)
Langue : anglais
Edité par The University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, Tennessee, 2017
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O2 - A first edition (no additional printing) hardcover book in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has an inch tear with wrinkling and chipping on the back top left side, wrinkling and crease on some edges and corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. Book has some bumped corners, some wrinkling on the spine edges, a few light smudges on the page edges, light discoloration and shelf wear. The African Queen and The Night of the Hunter: First and Final Screenplays (The Works of James Agee, Volume 4), General Editor Michael A. Lofaro, Associate General Editor Hugh Davis. 9.25"x6.25", 899 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. In a writing career that branched into drama, poetry, fiction, and journalism, film was a constant for James Agee. In love with movies from early childhood, he flirted with filmmaking and screenwriting in the 1920s and '30s, became a respected movie critic in the 1940s, and by late 1950 was working on a script with one of the directors he most admired, John Huston. His death at age forty-five would come only five years later but not before he had written several other screenplays. Volume 4 in The Works of James Agee series presents the writer's two most famous screenplays: for The African Queen, his collaboration with Huston, and for The Night of the Hunter, the only film ever directed by actor Charles Laughton. Not only does the book offer both the first draft and final shooting script for each work, it also features meticulous annotations by editor Jeffrey Couchman and a wealth of archival material, similarly annotated. Included, for The African Queen, are variants of key scenes; relevant fragments by two other writers, John Collier and Peter Viertel; and notes that Agee wrote from his hospital bed while recovering from a heart attack. The result is a remarkable window into the complex process by which a story is shaped and reshaped before the cameras roll. Most notable about the section on The Night of the Hunter (which Agee did not live to see in its final form) is the inclusion of the never-before-published first draft, rediscovered in 2003. This debunks forever the myth that Agee had produced a massive, unfilmable mess that Laughton discarded and rewrote from scratch. In fact, Laughton preserved essential structural elements of Agee's script along with important dramatic and visual ideas that originated with Agee and not with Davis Grubb's source novel. The African Queen and The Night of the Hunter stand today as undisputed Hollywood classics: the former a wonderfully comic adventure tale with delightful star turns by Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, the latter a unique, noirish fable in which Robert Mitchum's "Preacher" emerges as one of cinema's most unforgettable villains. For Agee scholars, film scholars, and the countless admirers of these masterful movies, this volume is a feast. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…
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- Titre
- The African Queen and The Night of the Hunter: First and Final Screenplays (The Works of James Agee, Volume 4)
- Auteur
- Jeffrey Couchman (Edited by)
- Éditeur
- The University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, Tennessee
- Année de publication
- 2017
- État de l'article
- Very Good
- Jaquette
- Very Good
- Reliure
- Hardcover
- Langue
- anglais
- ISBN à 10 chiffres
- 1621902358
- ISBN à 13 chiffres
- 9781621902355
- Édition
- First Edition.
"Jeffrey Couchman's editing displays his prodigious gifts for analyzing complex artistic collaborations. In his annotations and overviews of the first drafts and shooting scripts and
his introductions to supplemental material, he trains a subtle eye and ear on fluctuating dialogue, camera movements, music cues, and bits of action. He emerges with uncommon perceptions and deflates longstanding myths about the limits of Agee's influence on these two milestone movies. There's an air-clearing excitement to the way Couchman pinpoints specific Agee contributions that affect the flavor and quality of each film."
--Michael Sragow, author of Victor Fleming: An American Movie Master and editor of the Library of America's James Agee volumes
In a writing career that branched into drama, poetry, fiction, and journalism, film was a constant for James Agee. In love with movies from early childhood, he flirted with filmmaking and screenwriting in the 1920s and '30s, became a respected movie critic in the 1940s, and by late 1950 was working on a script with one of the directors he most admired, John Huston. His death at age forty-five would come only five years later but not before he had written several other screenplays.
Volume 4 in The Works of James Agee series presents the writer's two most famous screenplays: for The African Queen, his collaboration with Huston, and for The Night of the Hunter, the only film ever directed by actor Charles Laughton. Not only does the book offer both the first draft and final shooting script for each work, it also features meticulous annotations by editor Jeffrey Couchman and a wealth of archival material, similarly annotated. Included, for The African Queen, are variants of key scenes; relevant fragments by two other writers, John Collier and Peter Viertel; and notes that Agee wrote from his hospital bed while recovering from a heart attack. The result is a remarkable window into the complex process by which a story is shaped and reshaped before the cameras roll. Most notable about the section on The Night of the Hunter (which Agee did not live to see in its final form) is the inclusion of the never-before-published first draft, rediscovered in 2003. This debunks forever the myth that Agee had produced a massive, unfilmable mess that Laughton discarded and rewrote from scratch. In fact, Laughton preserved essential structural elements of Agee's script along with important dramatic and visual ideas that originated with Agee and not with Davis Grubb's source novel. The African Queen and The Night of the Hunter stand today as undisputed Hollywood classics: the former a wonderfully comic adventure tale with delightful star turns by Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, the latter a unique, noirish fable in which Robert Mitchum's "Preacher" emerges as one of cinema's most unforgettable villains. For Agee scholars, film scholars, and the countless admirers of these masterful movies, this volume is a feast.
Jeffrey Couchman, an adjunct professor of media culture at the College of Staten Island, is the author of The Night of the Hunter: A Biography of a Film. He is also editing forthcoming volumes of Agee's other screenplays.
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