Terry Southern and the American grotesque
By: David Tully ; foreword by Nile Southern
Publisher: McFarland & Co.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Jefferson, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780786444502
Description: "This work offers a critical analysis of the varied literary output of novels, short stories, screenplays, articles and essays of the American writer Terry Southern. Exploring Southern's work up to his meeting with film director Stanley Kubrick and entry into the film world in 1964, his writings are examined in chronological order of composition and publication"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-217) and index.
Table of contents: title: "Quality lit" years; title: Texas summers; title: You're too hip, baby; title: Don't get hot; title: Give me your hump; title: Mad tradition; title: Making it hot; title: Grooving in NY; title: Hipster; title: Beyond the beat; title: Bedtime stories; title: Movie years; title: Great Stanley K; title: Riding the black humor wave; title: Southern cult; title: Hollywood kid; title: Excessive verbiage; title: Epic sensibility; title: Come and get it; title: King Weirdo; title: Blue movies; title: Lost weekends; title: Grossing out; title: Saturday nights of terror, days of weird; title: Limbo; title: Priest of pagan; title: Nature laid to rest.