Title: Talking pictures
First published: 1974
Description: From the back cover:

This seminal book restores the screenwriter to his true place in the history of American ﬁlms. The brilliant young critic Richard Corliss aims to correct the imbalance of the auteur theorists, who make the director solely responsible for the ﬁlm as a work of art. Seeing the writer as a vital, though much ignored, link in ﬁlm creation, Corliss surveys a hundred motion pictures written by thirty-eight screenwriters, from Ben Hecht, Preston Sturges, and Dalton Trumbo to Terry Southern, Buck Henry, and Jules Feiffer. “The ﬁlms that receive the highest praise in this book,” he says, “are those whose writers and directors — in creative association with the actors and technicians — worked together toward a collaborative vision.” Because it covers so much ’so well, *Talking Pictures* is an indispensable cinematic reference work. it also deserves to rank among the very few books that have revolutionized the way we look at ﬁlms.
Subjects: Biography, History, History and criticism, Motion picture authorship, Motion picture plays, Motion pictures, Screenwriters, writing, screenwriting, Scénaristes, Cinéma, Películas cinematográficas, Fiction, general
Places: Calif.) Hollywood (Los Angeles, Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.), United States