Back Lot: Growing Up with the Movies

by Maurice Rapf

Overview

Maurice Rapf knows movies and the movie business as an insider, from first-hand experience, not from books. His autobiography is the story of one person's interaction with an evolving Hollywood.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780810835832
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	01/28/1999
Series:	The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series , #64
Pages:	236
Product dimensions:	5.76(w) x 8.78(h) x 0.74(d)

About the Author

Maurice Rapf was the Director Emeritus Film Studies and professor at Dartmouth College. He began at Dartmouth as an adjunct professor in 1966. In his long career, Maurice Rapf was a screenwriter, director, producer, film professor, and film critic.

Editorial Reviews

[Rapf] witnessed the rise and fall of the studio system, and delivers, in his own unique perspective, A Silents Majority Must Read.

Silents Majority

His personal recollections of the movies that were made at the time and the stars who inhabited that studio is informative and, indeed, priceless.

Rapport

...the book is quite different from the most of the film industry biographies as the writer never rose to the top. I found the book to be extremely engrossing.

Asifa

...Rapf has led a fascinating life and his life story makes for an interesting read.

Daily Dartmouth

[Rapf] witnessed the rise and fall of the studio system, and delivers, in his own unique perspective, A Silents Majority Must Read.--Silents Majority

His personal recollections of the movies that were made at the time and the stars who inhabited that studio is informative and, indeed, priceless.--Rapport

...the book is quite different from the most of the film industry biographies as the writer never rose to the top. I found the book to be extremely engrossing.--Asifa

From the Publisher

The son of movie producer Harry Rapf tells what it was like growing up in Hollywood during its golden era, of writing screenplays himself in the 1930s and 1940s, becoming engaged in political and labor movements, being blacklisted during the 1950s, and constructing a new career as film critic and teacher on the east coast. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)

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