The Anti-hero's Journey: The Work and Life of Alan Sharp

ISBN-13: 9781789975758 / Angielski

Valentina Bold; David Manderson

Opis

The adopted son of a Greenock shipyard worker, Alan Sharp became a bestselling novelist, a leading playwright, a record-breaking Hollywood screenwriter and the central figure of a new Scottish film industry. This study seeks to restore his work to the prominence it deserves.

Spis treści

Contents: Early Novels (1965-7) - British Radio and Television Plays (1962-71) - Westerns (1971-4) - Noir Films (1971-5) - American Television Dramas (1975-92) - Return: Scottish Screenplays (1993-2010) - South Sea Tales (1997-2009) - Alan Sharp Papers.

O autorze

David Manderson is a novelist, short story writer and researcher. His work ranges across Scottish and international film and literature. His novel «Lost Bodies' was published in 2011. He has written about the films «Rob Roy» (2009) and «Local Hero» (2010) for the Association for Scottish Literary Studies and co-written chapters for Cambridge University Press and Luath Press. He has also contributed to The Bottle Imp, Chapman Magazine, Gutter Magazine, West Coast Magazine, New Writing Scotland and Hanging Loose Press (New York). He founded a film festival at the Glasgow Film Theatre in 1990 and the creative magazine «Nerve» in 2000. He also ran poetry sessions in Glasgow's Tchai Ovna Cafe for a decade. In 2000 he won a Scottish Arts Council New Writers' Award. In 2017 he was awarded a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship. His poem «Expedition», animated by Samantha Hendry, won a short film award in 2019.