Backstory - Interviews with Screenwriters

McGilligan, Patrick edits and introduces

The first two volumes of the series; organised by decade: 'Hollywood's Golden Age', 'the 1940s and 1950s'; twenty-seven writers and teams, including: W.R. Burnett, James M.Cain, Philip Dunne, Casey Robinson, Garson Kanin, Leigh Brackett, and Curt Siodmak; an oral history of the other auteur theory; illustrated, bibliography, indexes of movies, plays, television programs and books, 800pp; the other auteur theory; Joel Greenberg's copies with his ownership stamp; laid in is an autograph note, signed to Joel Greenberg from Patrick McGilligan belatedly sending vol.2.

Publisher: University of California Press. First American editions 1986, 1991
Edition: First Edition
Place Published: Berkeley, CA
Ownership stamps, spots of foxing to extremities, very good in dustwrappers with tape shadows on reverse. The two vols.


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