Terry Southern and the American Grotesque

by Tully, David

• ISBN13: 9780786444502
• ISBN10: 0786444509
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-05-06
• Publisher: McFarland Publishing

Summary

This work offers a critical biography and analysis of the varied literary output of novels, short stories, screenplays, poetry, articles and essays of the American writer Terry Southern. The book explores Southern's career from his early days in Paris with friends like Samuel Beckett, to swinging London in such company as the Rolling Stones, to filmmaking in Los Angeles and Europe with luminaries like Stanley Kubrick. His writings are examined in chronological order. David Tully was granted unprecedented access by Terry Southern's family to rare, unpublished work from his private archives. This study offers the first comprehensive examination of the career of this major American writer.

Author Biography

David Tully is a screenwriter living in Dubai. He has taught at New York University, worked in the film industry in Los Angeles and South Africa, and written for television in Manhattan and Munich. He currently has several films in production.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Foreword	p. 1
Preface	p. 5
The "Quality Lit" Years
Introduction to Part One	p. 9
Texas summers	p. 19
You're Too Hip, Baby	p. 25
Don't Get Hot	p. 30
Give Me Your Hump!	p. 47
The Mad Tradition	p. 65
Making It Hot	p. 74
Grooving in NY	p. 82
Hipster	p. 96
Beyond the Beat	p. 107
Conclusion to Part One: Bedtime stories	p. 115
The Movie Years
Introduction to Part Two	p. 123
The Great Stanley K.	p. 128
Riding the Black Humor Wave	p. 136
The Southern Cult	p. 140
The Hollywood kid	p. 149
Excessive Verbiage	p. 155
The Epic Sensibility	p. 160
Come and Get It	p. 163
King Weirdo	p. 167
Blue Movies	p. 171
Lost Weekends	p. 177
Grossing Out	p. 183
Saturday Nights of Terror, Days of Weird	p. 188
Limbo	p. 194
Conclusion to Part Two: The Priest of Pagan Nature Laid to Rest	p. 200
Source Notes	p. 203
Bibliography	p. 213
Index	p. 219
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