Three Screenplays

by E. L. Doctorow

Paul Levine (Editor)

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One of America's most accomplished and acclaimed living writers, E. L. Doctorow has played an active role in transforming his novels into films, writing screenplay adaptations of three works: The Book of Daniel, Ragtime, and Loon Lake. These scripts reveal a new aspect of Doctorow's remarkable talents and offer film students and other cineastes unique insight into the complex relationship of literature and motion pictures. Each of these screenplays has undergone a different fate. Doctorow's script for Daniel was made into a feature film by director Sidney Lumet in 1983. The monumental Ragtime screenplay he wrote for director Robert Altman was to have been filmed as either a six-hour feature film or a ten-hour television series. When Altman was replaced on the project by Milos Forman, a shorter, more conventional script was commissioned from another writer. In 1981, Doctorow adapted Loon Lake, but this challenging work has yet to be filmed.
  • ISBN10 080188201X
  • ISBN13 9780801882012
  • Publish Date 1 June 2005 (first published 7 April 2003)
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Out of Print 29 March 2012
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Edition New edition
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 480
  • Language English