John Dos Passos and Cinema

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The first study of hislittle-known screen writing, John DosPassos and Motion Pictures: Writing Film, Film Writing uses unpublishedmanuscripts and correspondence to explore how he adapted film aesthetics to structure hismodernist novels of the 1920s and 1930s, then, beginning in the 1940s,attempted to revise those novels directly into screenplays reflecting the controversialconservative political shift that redefined his later literary career.