Heartbreak and Vine: The Fate If Hardboiled Writers in Hollywood: The Fate of Hardboiled Writers in Hollywood - Brossura

Haut, Woody

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ISBN 10: 1852426780 ISBN 13: 9781852426781

Casa editrice: Serpents Tail, 2002

Riassunto

Hardboiled in Hollywood tells the story of the tangled relations between the great crime novelists, from Dashiell Hammett to Elmore Leonard, and the Hollywood machine. Haut begins by showing the huge debt Hollywood owed to writers like Hammett, Chandler and James M. Cain, as the film versions of novels like The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep and Double Indemnity came to define film noir. Almost every significant American crime novelist since has served their time in Hollywood, some, like W.R. Burnett or Donald Westlake, with great success, more often, as with the likes of Jim Thompson and David Goodis, with great disillusion. Haut weaves in anecdote and analysis along with original interviews to provide an invaluable companion for moviegoers and crime fiction fans alike.

Born in Detroit in 1945, Woody Haut has been a cinema programmer and, as journalist, was the Labour Editor for Rolling Stock magazine. He is the author of Neon Noir and Pulp Culture, published by Serpent's Tail and now lives in London.

Also available by Woody Haut
Pulp Culture
TP $15.99, 1-85242-319-6 · CUSA
Neon Noir
TP $16.99, 1-85242-547-4 · CUSA

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Recensione:

?The tendency now known as "film noir" was created by writers as well as directors and Woody Haut

s elegant account of those tough-guy novelists and their Hollywood misadventures is fascinating, thorough, and, in some cases, positively noirish? J. Hoberman, film critic, The Village Voice. 'Both the crime novel and the Hollywood film are popular, commercial forms that upon occasion aspire to art ? or achieve it by chance. Woody Haut's new book makes much of that contradiction, and gives us an immensely readable survey of hardboiled writers in Hollywood, from Hammett and Goodis to Eddie Bunker and Dennis Lehane. One turns the final page wanting more (James Sallis)

L'autore:

Born in Detroit in 1945, Woody Haut grew up in Pasadena, California, attended San Francisco State University, and has lived in Britain since the early 1970s. Presently a London-based journalist, he has worked as a college lecturer, taxi-cab driver, record shop assistant, cinema programmer and Labour Editor for Rolling Stock magazine (US).

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• Editore: Serpents Tail
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1852426780
• ISBN 13: 9781852426781
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 312