Author: Gabriel MillerPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781617034961
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The Films of Martin Ritt
Author: Gabriel MillerPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781617034961
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Picking Up the Tab
Author: Carlton JacksonPublisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879726720
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
At the memorial held after Martin Ritt's death in 1990, he was hailed as this country's greatest maker of social films. From No Down Payment early in his career to Stanley & Iris, his last production, he delineated the nuances of American society. In between were other social statements such as Hud, Sounder, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, Norma Rae, and The Great White Hope. He was a leftist who embraced various radical movements of the 1930s and, largely because of this involvement, was blacklisted from television in the early 1950s. His film The Front, about the blacklisting, was his most autobiographical. He was a Jew from New York; yet he went to a small college in North Carolina, Elon, where he played football for "The Fighting Christians". His school days in the South gave him a lifelong love for the region. Thus, in his movies, he was just as much at home with southern as with northern topics. He did not deal totally in his southern experience with racism and poverty. He directed The Long Hot Summer and The Sound and the Fury, both of which described conflicts between and among white social groups. He once remarked, "I have spent most of my film life in the South". Some referred to his films as "think movies", and perhaps this is why he never won an Oscar for best directing. But he gave moviegoers all over the world an opportunity to see what America was really like - from the viewpoint both of the wealthy and of the poor. It may be, unfortunately, that we will never see his likes again.
Martin Ritt
Author: Martin RittPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781578064342
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
A collection of interviews with one of America's preeminent makers of social films and one of the most sensitive portraitists of the rural South
The South and Film
Author: Warren G. FrenchPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781617035111
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Martin Ritt
Author: Martin RittPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781578064342
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
A collection of interviews with one of America's preeminent makers of social films and one of the most sensitive portraitists of the rural South
William Wyler
Author: William WylerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Interviews with the director of Ben Hur, Jezebel, Mrs. Miniver, Roman Holiday, and Wuthering Heights
Fred Zinnemann
Author: Fred ZinnemannPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781578066988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Over thirty years of interviews that provide a revealing glimpse into the director's vision as he discusses his varied experiences as a filmmaker
An Auteurist History of Film
Author: Charles SilverPublisher: Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN: 9780870709777
Category : Auteur theory (Motion pictures)
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
From 2009 to 2014, The Museum of Modern Art presented a weekly series of film screenings titled An Auteurist History of Film. Inspired by Andrew Sarris's seminal book The American Cinema, which elaborated on the "auteur theory" first developed by the critics of Cahiers du Cinéma in the 1950s, the series presented works from MoMA's expansive film collection, with a particular focus on the role of the director as artistic author. Film curator Charles Silver wrote a blog post to accompany each screening, describing the place of each film in the oeuvre of is director as well as the work's significance in cinema history. Following the end of the series' five-year run, the Museum collected these texts for publication, and is now bringing together Silver's insightful and often humorous readings in a single volume. This publication is an invaluable guide to key directors and movies as well as an excellent introduction to auteur theory. -- from back cover.
Hud ; Norma Rae ; And, The Long, Hot Summer
Author: Irving RavetchPublisher: Plume Books
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The Marxist and the Movies
Author: Larry CeplairPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813137047
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
As part of its effort to expose Communist infiltration in the United States and eliminate Communist influence on movies, from 1947--1953 the House Committee on Un-American Activities subpoenaed hundreds of movie industry employees suspected of membership in the Communist Party. Most of them, including screenwriter Paul Jarrico (1915--1997), invoked the Fifth Amendment and refused to answer questions about their political associations. They were all blacklisted. In The Marxist and the Movies, Larry Ceplair narrates the life, movie career, and political activities of Jarrico, the recipient of an Oscar nomination for his screenplay for Tom, Dick and Harry (1941) and the producer of Salt of the Earth (1954), one of the most politically besieged films in the history of the United States. Though Jarrico did not reach the upper eschelon of screenwriting, he worked steadily in Hollywood until his blacklisting. He was one of the movie industry's most engaged Communists, working on behalf of dozens of social and political causes. Song of Russia (1944) was one of the few assignments that allowed him to express his political beliefs through his screenwriting craft. Though MGM planned the film as a conventional means of boosting domestic support for the USSR, a wartime ally of the United States, it came under attack by a host of anti-Communists. Jarrico fought the blacklist in many ways, and his greatest battle involved the making of Salt of the Earth. Jarrico, other blacklisted individuals, and the families of the miners who were the subject of the film created a landmark film in motion picture history. As did others on the blacklist, Jarrico decided that Europe offered a freer atmosphere than that of the cold war United States. Although he continued to support political causes while living abroad, he found it difficult to find remunerative black market screenwriting assignments. On the scripts he did complete, he had to use a pseudonym or allow the producers to give screen credit to others. Upon returning to the United States in 1977, he led the fight to restore screen credits to the blacklisted writers who, like himself, had been denied screen credit from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s. Despite all the obstacles he encountered, Jarrico never lost his faith in the progressive potential of movies and the possibility of a socialist future. The Marxist and the Movies details the relationship between a screenwriter's work and his Communist beliefs. From Jarrico's immense archive, interviews with him and those who knew him best, and a host of other sources, Ceplair has crafted an insider's view of Paul Jarrico's life and work, placing both in the context of U.S. cultural history.