Terry Southern and the American Grotesque
A Critical Study of the Writings Before the Movie Years
Will be published approx. on 29. April 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
232 pages
978-0-7864-4450-2 (ISBN)
Description
This work offers a critical biography and analysis of the varied literary output of novels, short stories, screenplays, poetry, articles and essays of the American writer Terry Southern. The book explores Southern's career from his early days in Paris with friends like Samuel Beckett, to swinging London in such company as the Rolling Stones, to filmmaking in Los Angeles and Europe with luminaries like Stanley Kubrick. His writings are examined in chronological order.
David Tully was granted unprecedented access by Terry Southern's family to rare, unpublished work from his private archives. This study offers the first comprehensive examination of the career of this major American writer.
David Tully was granted unprecedented access by Terry Southern's family to rare, unpublished work from his private archives. This study offers the first comprehensive examination of the career of this major American writer.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Jefferson, NC
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Interest Age: From 18 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
notes, bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
387 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7864-4450-2 (9780786444502)
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Person
David Tully is a screenwriter living in Dubai. He has taught at New York University, worked in the film industry in Los Angeles and South Africa, and written for television in Manhattan and Munich. He currently has several films in production.
Content
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Nile Southern
Preface
Part One: The "Quality Lit" Years
Introduction to Part One
1. Texas Summers
2. You're Too Hip, Baby
3. Don't Get Hot
4. Give Me Your Hump!
5. The Mad Tradition
6. Making It Hot
7. Grooving in NY
8. Hipster
9. Beyond the Beat
Conclusion to Part One: Bedtime Stories
Part Two: The Movie Years
Introduction to Part Two
10. The Great Stanley K.
11. Riding the Black Humor Wave
12. The Southern Cult
13. The Hollywood Kid
14. Excessive Verbiage
15. The Epic Sensibility
16. Come and Get It
17. King Weirdo
18. Blue Movies
19. Lost Weekends
20. Grossing Out
21. Saturday Nights of Terror, Days of Weird
22. Limbo
Conclusion to Part Two: The Priest of Pagan Nature Laid to Rest
Source Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Nile Southern
Preface
Part One: The "Quality Lit" Years
Introduction to Part One
1. Texas Summers
2. You're Too Hip, Baby
3. Don't Get Hot
4. Give Me Your Hump!
5. The Mad Tradition
6. Making It Hot
7. Grooving in NY
8. Hipster
9. Beyond the Beat
Conclusion to Part One: Bedtime Stories
Part Two: The Movie Years
Introduction to Part Two
10. The Great Stanley K.
11. Riding the Black Humor Wave
12. The Southern Cult
13. The Hollywood Kid
14. Excessive Verbiage
15. The Epic Sensibility
16. Come and Get It
17. King Weirdo
18. Blue Movies
19. Lost Weekends
20. Grossing Out
21. Saturday Nights of Terror, Days of Weird
22. Limbo
Conclusion to Part Two: The Priest of Pagan Nature Laid to Rest
Source Notes
Bibliography
Index