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Selznick's Vision: Gone with the Wind and Hollywood Filmmaking

Selznick's Vision: Gone with the Wind and Hollywood Filmmaking

Vertrees, Alan David
Schatz, Thomas

Paperback

Series: Texas Film and Media Studies

Film StudiesFilmmaking

ISBN10: 0292787294
ISBN13: 9780292787292
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: Nov 1 1997
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.40
Height: 0.68 Width: 6.98 Depth: 9.95
Language: English

Gone with the Wind has generated interest in every aspect of its production. Yet one crucial aspect has never been fully understood or appreciated--the vital shaping role played by executive producer David O. Selznick.

In this book, Alan David Vertrees challenges the popular image of Selznick as a megalomaniacal meddler whose hiring and firing of directors and screenwriters created a patchwork film that succeeded despite his interference. Drawing on ten years of research in the Selznick archives, and examining the screenplay's successive drafts, dramatic continuity designs and storyboard sketches (many of which are reproduced here), and production correspondence and memoranda, Vertrees interprets the producer's actions as manipulation, not indecision, establishing Selznick's vision as the guiding intelligence behind the film's success.

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