The Night of the Hunter: A Biography of a Film

by Jeffrey Couchman

Reaching simultaneously into the realms of film and literature, this detailed exploration of The Night of the Hunter examines the genesis and the eclectic form of each work and the process of transformation by which the novel became a motion picture. It provides the first major study of the long-lost first-draft screenplay by James Agee and confronts a fifty-year controversy about the authorship of the film. This is a story of artistic convergence...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810125420
• ISBN13: 9780810125421
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 9.0"