Abraham Polonsky : interviews

Resource Information

The work Abraham Polonsky : interviews represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Abraham Polonsky : interviews

Title remainder

interviews

Statement of responsibility

edited by Andrew Dickos

Creator

• Polonsky, Abraham

Contributor

• Dickos, Andrew, 1952-
• Dickos, Andrew, 1952-

Subject

• Motion picture producers and directors -- United States -- Interviews
• Polonsky, Abraham -- Interviews
• Screenwriters -- United States -- Interviews
• Authors, American -- 20th century -- Interviews

Genre

• Interviews

Language

eng

Summary

Abraham Polonsky (1910-1999), screenwriter and filmmaker of the mid-twentieth-century Left, recognized his writerly mission to reveal the aspirations of his characters in a material society structured to undermine their hopes. In the process, he ennobled their struggle. His auspicious beginning in Hollywood reached a zenith with his Oscar-nominated screenplay for Robert Rossen's boxing noir, Body and Soul (1947), and his inaugural film as writer and director, Force of Evil (1948), before he was blacklisted during the McCarthy witch hunt. Polonsky envisioned cinema a

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

CaPaEBR

Dewey number

791.4302/33092

Index

index present

LC call number

PS3531.O377

LC item number

A5 2013eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• standards specifications
• bibliography
• filmographies

Series statement

Conversations with filmmakers series