‏117.00 ₪

Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures

‏117.00 ₪
ISBN13
9780300180428
זמן אספקה
במלאי, (זמן אספקה 5 ימי עסקים)
עמודים
264
פורמט
Hardback
תאריך יציאה לאור
12 במרץ 2019
שם סדרה
Jewish Lives
A vibrant portrait of one of the most accomplished and prolific American screenwriters, by an award-winning biographer and essayist
A vibrant portrait of one of the most accomplished and prolific American screenwriters, by an award-winning biographer and essayist He was, according to Pauline Kael, "the greatest American screenwriter." Jean-Luc Godard called him "a genius" who "invented 80 percent of what is used in Hollywood movies today." Besides tossing off dozens of now-classic scripts-including Scarface,Twentieth Century, and Notorious-Ben Hecht was known in his day as ace reporter, celebrated playwright, taboo-busting novelist, and the most quick-witted of provocateurs. During World War II, he also emerged as an outspoken crusader for the imperiled Jews of Europe, and later he became a fierce propagandist for pre-1948 Palestine's Jewish terrorist underground. Whatever the outrage he stirred, this self-declared "child of the century" came to embody much that defined America-especially Jewish America-in his time. Hecht's fame has dimmed with the decades, but Adina Hoffman's vivid portrait brings this charismatic and contradictory figure back to life on the page. Hecht was a renaissance man of dazzling sorts, and Hoffman-critically acclaimed biographer, former film critic, and eloquent commentator on Middle Eastern culture and politics-is uniquely suited to capture him in all his modes.
מידע נוסף
עמודים 264
פורמט Hardback
ISBN10 030018042X
תאריך יציאה לאור 12 במרץ 2019
זמן אספקה במלאי, (זמן אספקה 5 ימי עסקים)