Genesis of an American playwright / by Horton Foote ; edited and with an introduction by Dr. Marion Castleberry.

Author/creator Foote, Horton
Other author Castleberry, Marion.
Format Book
Publication InfoWaco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, [2004]
Descriptionxxi, 287 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
Foote, Horton--Childhood and youth.
Foote, Horton--Homes and haunts. --Texas. --Wharton.
Dramatists, American--20th century. --Biography.
Screenwriters--United States. --Biography.
Texas--Intellectual life. --20th century.
Texas--Social life and customs.
Wharton (Tex.)--Biography.

Contents Genesis of a Playwright -- Seeing and Imagining -- Pasadena and Beyond -- Learning to Write -- On Being a Southern Writer -- Wharton, Then and Now -- What It Means to be a Southern Writer -- The Trip to Paradise -- The Artist as Mythmaker -- Things Have Ends and Beginnings -- Writing for the Stage -- Dance and Broadway (1944) -- Harrison, USA -- Sometimes the One-Act Play Says It All -- Advice to Young Playwrights -- Herbert Berghof -- The Orphans' Home Cycle Lecture -- How To and How Not To: Some Lessons Learned along the Way -- Introduction to The Young Man from Atlanta -- Writing for the Screen -- The Little Box -- On First Dramatizing Faulkner -- The McDermott Lecture -- Writing for Film -- Willa Cather -- Thoughts on the American Theatre -- The New York Theatre (1930-1940) -- The Changing of the Guard -- The Vanishing World and Renewals.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 263-272) and index.
LCCN 2003019617
ISBN0918954916 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PS3511.O344 Z469 2004 ✔ Available Place Hold