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Dear SCREENWRITING-RESEARCH-NETWORK Subscribers, New publications from University of Texas Press Free postage to UK customers http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/cormac-mccarthy-and-performance [CREATOR: gd-jpeg v1.0 (using IJG JPEG v62), quality = 75]Cormac McCarthy and Performance Page, Stage, Screen Stacey Peebles Cormac McCarthy is renowned as the author of popular and acclaimed novels such as Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses, and The Road. Throughout his career, however, McCarthy has also invested deeply in writing for film and theater, an engagement with other forms of storytelling that is often overlooked. He is the author of five screenplays and two plays, and he has been significantly involved with three of the seven film adaptations of his work. In this book, Stacey Peebles offers the first extensive overview of this relatively unknown aspect of McCarthy's writing life, including the ways in which other artists have interpreted his work for the stage and screen. Drawing on many primary sources in McCarthy's recently opened archive, as well as interviews, Peebles covers the 1977 televised film The Gardener's Son; McCarthy's unpublished screenplays from the 1980s that became the foundation for his Border Trilogy novels and No Country for Old Men; various successful and unsuccessful productions of his two plays; and all seven film adaptations of his work, including John Hillcoat's The Road (2009) and the Coen brothers' Oscar-winning No Country for Old Men (2007). Emerging from this narrative is the central importance of tragedy—the rich and varied portrayals of violence and suffering and the human responses to them—in all of McCarthy's work, but especially his writing for theater and film. Stacey Peebles is an associate professor of English and director of film studies at Centre College. She is vice president of the Cormac McCarthy Society, editor of the Cormac McCarthy Journal, and author of Welcome to the Suck: Narrating the American Soldier’s Experience in Iraq. University of Texas Press | | June 2017 | 256pp | | 9781477312315 | PB | £24.99* 20% discount with this code: CSL817SCREEN** http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/rewrite-man [CREATOR: gd-jpeg v1.0 (using IJG JPEG v62), quality = 75]Rewrite Man The Life and Career of Screenwriter Warren Skaaren Alison Macor "The bulk of the book details his role in the creation of numerous successful films, including Batman, Beetlejuice, and Top Gun, and his battles to get his contributions to the filmed scripts formally recognized. Skaaren’s skill and efficiency—he rewrote Top Gun in just 10 days—became legendary, and Macor explains how the changes he made to characterizations improved them." - Publishers Weekly In Rewrite Man, Alison Macor tells an engrossing story about the challenges faced by a top screenwriter at the crossroads of mixed and conflicting agendas in Hollywood. Whether writing love scenes for Tom Cruise on the set of Top Gun, running lines with Michael Keaton on Beetlejuice, or crafting Nietzschean dialogue for Jack Nicholson on Batman, Warren Skaaren collaborated with many of New Hollywood's most powerful stars, producers, and directors. By the time of his premature death in 1990, Skaaren was one of Hollywood's highest-paid writers, although he rarely left Austin, where he lived and worked. Yet he had to battle for shared screenwriting credit on these films, and his struggles yield a new understanding of the secretive screen credit arbitration process—a process that has only become more intense, more litigious, and more public for screenwriters and their union, the Writers Guild of America, since Skaaren's time. His story, told through a wealth of archival material, illuminates crucial issues of film authorship that have seldom been explored. Alison Macor is the author of Chainsaws, Slackers, and Spy Kids: Thirty Years of Filmmaking in Austin, Texas, which won the Peter C. Rollins Book of the Year Award from the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association. A freelance writer, she holds a PhD in film history and has taught film courses at the University of Texas at Austin and Texas State University. University of Texas Press | | May 2017 | 264pp | | 9780292759459 | HB | £28.99* 20% discount with this code: CSL817SCREEN ** *Price subject to change. **Offer excludes the USA, Canada and South America. Author and independent bookshop blog - Bookscombined.com<https://bookscombined.com/> Follow us on Twitter @CAP_Ltd<http://twitter.com/#!/CAP_Ltd>, Facebook Combined Academic Publishers<https://business.facebook.com/Combined-Academic-Publishers-196269570500/?business_id=10155394879930501> and Sign up to our newsletter email alerts here<http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/content/34-subscribe-to-our-newsletter>