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The first study of his little-known screen writing,
John Dos Passos and Motion Pictures: Writing Film, Film Writing uses unpublished manuscripts and correspondence to explore how he adapted film aesthetics to structure his modernist novels of the 1920s and 1930s, then, beginning in the 1940s, attempted to revise those novels directly into screenplays reflecting the controversial conservative political shift that redefined his later literary career.
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After faculty positions at University of North Carolina affiliates and Georgetown University School of Foreign Service-Qatar, Lisa Nanney co-edited and co-authored the 2017 study of John Dos Passos's visual works, The Paintings and Drawings of John Dos Passos: A Collection and Study (Clemson University Press). Her current book, John Dos Passos and Cinema (2019), further explores the intersection of his narrative methods and the visual arts by investigating his writing directly for the cinema, his translation of modernist fictional techniques to the screen, and the ways these forays into film writing were shaped by his re-evaluation of the Left at a pivotal point in his career. Nanney is also the author of John Dos Passos Revisited (Macmillan Press, 1998), a critical biography.
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The book features previously unpublishedmanuscripts and correspondence illustrating case studies of John Dos Passos screen writingfor Paramount Pictures 1934 his role in writing and filming The Spanish Earth 1937, a SpanishCivil War relief project whose circumstances culminated in his public breakfrom the Left the 1936 screen treatment he wrote just before The Spanish Earth in consultation withits director, Joris Ivens and his later-career attempts, beginning in the1940s, to adapt his radically innovative trilogy U.S.A. directly for the screen and to realign its leftist politicstoward the anti-Communist conservatism reflected in his
