Three More Screenplays by Preston Sturges

Three More Screenplays by Preston Sturges

Author: Preston Sturges

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1998-08-29

Total Pages: 508

ISBN-13: 9780520210042

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Preston Sturges (1898-1959) was a member of Hollywood's gifted royalty, producing a remarkable number of films. In this third volume of scripts by one of Hollywood's wisest and wittiest filmmakers, the focus is on screenplays written but not directed by Sturges. This volume will be the perfect accompaniment to the re-release of Sturges films on home video. 8 illustrations.


Five Screenplays

Five Screenplays

Author: Preston Sturges

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 856

ISBN-13: 0520055640

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Five comic masterpieces by Preston Sturges, who has been called "Hollywood's greatest writer-director, with emphasis on the former." The scripts are drawn from the great period between 1939 and 1944, which Andrew Sarris called "one of the most brilliant and most bizarre bursts of creation in the history of cinema."


Three More Screenplays by Preston Sturges

Three More Screenplays by Preston Sturges

Author: Preston Sturges

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 491

ISBN-13: 9780520210035

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Preston Sturges (1898-1959) was a member of Hollywood's gifted royalty, producing a remarkable number of films. In this third volume of scripts by one of Hollywood's wisest and wittiest filmmakers, the focus is on screenplays written but not directed by Sturges. This volume will be the perfect accompaniment to the re-release of Sturges films on home video. 8 illustrations.


Writing the Character-Centered Screenplay, Updated and Expanded edition

Writing the Character-Centered Screenplay, Updated and Expanded edition

Author: Andrew Horton

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2000-02-23

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780520924178

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"We need good screenwriters who understand character." Everywhere Andrew Horton traveled in researching this book—from Hollywood to Hungary—he heard the same refrain. Yet most of the standard how-to books on screenwriting follow the film industry's earlier lead in focusing almost exclusively on plot and formulaic structures. With this book, Horton, a film scholar and successful screenwriter, provides the definitive work on the character-based screenplay. Exceptionally wide-ranging—covering American, international, mainstream, and "off-Hollywood" films, as well as television—the book offers creative strategies and essential practical information. Horton begins by placing screenwriting in the context of the storytelling tradition, arguing through literary and cultural analysis that all great stories revolve around a strong central character. He then suggests specific techniques and concepts to help any writer—whether new or experienced—build more vivid characters and screenplays. Centering his discussion around four film examples—including Thelma & Louise and The Silence of the Lambs—and the television series, Northern Exposure, he takes the reader step-by-step through the screenwriting process, starting with the development of multi-dimensional characters and continuing through to rewrite. Finally, he includes a wealth of information about contests, fellowships, and film festivals. Espousing a new, character-based approach to screenwriting, this engaging, insightful work will prove an essential guide to all of those involved in the writing and development of film scripts.


The Cinema of Preston Sturges

The Cinema of Preston Sturges

Author: Alessandro Pirolini

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2014-01-10

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 0786456140

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Most published works on writer-director Preston Sturges (1898-1959) have focused on the elements that made him a symbol of classic Hollywood comedy or his contributions to the genre via such 1940s classics as The Lady Eve, Sullivan's Travels and Miracle of Morgan's Creek. In contrast, this critical study asserts that there are enough unexplained incongruities, fragmentations and contradictions in Sturges' output to demand a re-evalution of his place in film history as a predecessor (and perhaps progenitor) of later postmodern filmmakers. Four appendices offer a generous selection of previously unavailable material, including an exclusive interview with the director's fourth wife Sandy Sturges.


ReFocus: The Films of Preston Sturges

ReFocus: The Films of Preston Sturges

Author: Jeff Jaeckle

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2015-10-08

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1474406564

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This first collection of critical essays on Preston Sturges-director, screenwriter, comic genius of Hollywood-reawakens interest in the filmmaker's life and works and reminds readers why his movies continue to be culturally significant and immensely enjoyable.


Best American Screenplays 3

Best American Screenplays 3

Author: Sam Thomas

Publisher: Crown

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13:

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Crown's third collection of great screenplays showcases the screenwriter's contribution to eight memorable films encompassing more than half a century of American cinema. Sam Thomas has written a major introduction and provided background information on each of the eight screenplays and their screenwriters.


Crooked, but Never Common

Crooked, but Never Common

Author: Stuart Klawans

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2023-01-10

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 023155690X

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In a burst of creativity unmatched in Hollywood history, Preston Sturges directed a string of all-time classic comedies from 1939 through 1948—The Great McGinty, The Lady Eve, Sullivan’s Travels, The Palm Beach Story, and The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek among them—all from screenplays he alone had written. Cynical and sophisticated, romantic and sexually frank, crazily breakneck and endlessly witty, his movies continue to influence filmmakers and remain popular to this day. Yet despite this acclaim, Sturges’s achievements remain underappreciated: he is too often categorized as a dialogue writer and plot engineer more than a director, or belittled as an irresponsible spinner of laughs. In Crooked, but Never Common, Stuart Klawans combines a critic’s insight and a fan’s enthusiasm to offer deeper ways to think about and enjoy Sturges’s work. He provides an in-depth appreciation of all ten of the writer-director’s major movies, presenting Sturges as a filmmaker whose work balanced slapstick and social critique, American and European traditions, and cynicism and affection for his characters. Tugging at loose threads—discontinuities, puzzles, and allusions that have dangled in plain sight—and putting the films into a broader cultural context, Klawans reveals structures, motives, and meanings underlying the uproarious pleasures of Sturges’s movies. In this new light, Sturges emerges at last as one of the truly great filmmakers—and funnier than ever.