Libro Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures (Jewish Lives) De Adina Hoffman

portada Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures (Jewish Lives)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Yale Univ Pr

Autor

Adina Hoffman

Año

2020

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

264

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9780300251814

Categorías

Biografías de artistas

Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures (Jewish Lives)

Adina Hoffman (Autor) · Yale Univ Pr · Tapa Blanda

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A vibrant portrait of one of the most accomplished and prolific American screenwriters, by an award-winning biographer and essayistHe 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.