{"product_id":"abraham-polonsky-interviews-hardcover","title":"Abraham Polonsky: Interviews - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAbraham Polonsky\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAndrew Dickos\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbraham 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 as a modern artist. His aesthetic appreciation for each technical component of the screen aroused him to create voiceovers of urban cadences--poetic monologues spoken by the city's everyman, embodied by the actor who played his heroes best, John Garfield. His use of David Raksin's score in Force of Evil, against the backdrop of the grandeur of New York City's landscape and the conflict between the brothers Joe and Leo Morse, elevated film noir into classical family tragedy. Like Garfield, Polonsky faced persecution and an aborted career during the blacklist. But unlike Garfield, Polonsky survived to resume his career in Hollywood during the ferment of the late sixties. Then his vision of a changing society found allegorical expression in Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here, his impressive anti-Western showing the destruction of the Paiute rebel outsider, Willie Boy, and cementing Polonsky as a moral voice in cinema. Andrew Dickos, New York, New York, is the author of Street with No Name: A History of the Classic American Film Noir and Intrepid Laughter: Preston Sturges and the Movies. He is a commentator on Paramount Home Entertainment's DVD of Preston Sturges's The Miracle of Morgan's Creek and the contributor on film noir to the Columbia World of Quotations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eInterviews with the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of \u003ci\u003eBody and Soul\u003c\/i\u003e and the director of \u003ci\u003eForce of Evil\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTell Them Willie Boy Is Here\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrew Dickos\u003c\/b\u003e is author of \u003ci\u003eStreet with No Name: A History of the Classic American Film Noir\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Intrepid Laughter: Preston Sturges and the Movies\u003c\/i\u003e, and, recently, \u003ci\u003eHonor Among Thieves: The Cinema of Jean-Pierre Melville\u003c\/i\u003e. He is editor of \u003ci\u003eAbraham Polonsky: Interviews\u003c\/i\u003e, a commentator on Paramount Home Entertainment's DVD of Preston Sturges's \u003ci\u003eThe Miracle of Morgan's Creek, \u003c\/i\u003e and the contributor on film noir to the \u003ci\u003eColumbia World of Quotations\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 09, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47184863101177,"sku":"9781617036606","price":72.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/aDk1N3NDZDNMLysxTExCS3cyeUdEUT09.webp?v=1767801879","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/abraham-polonsky-interviews-hardcover","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}