Linda Brookover

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Linda Brookover
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On Madrid metro, Winter 2019
Born
Linda Dru Brookover

Marshall, Missouri, U.S.
Alma mater University of California, Los Angeles, M.Ed., Educational Administration; Texas A&M University–Commerce, M.Ed. in Bilingual Education; University of Texas at Austin, B.A. in Spanish.
Occupation(s)Educator, film screenwriter/producer
Years active1982–present
Spouse Alain Silver

Linda Brookover is a US screenwriter, [1] [2] film producer, [3] essayist on film topics, especially the horror genre [4] and film noir.

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Education

Brookover graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a B.A. in Spanish. She has master's degrees in Education from both East Texas State University (now Texas A&M Commerce) and the University of California, Los Angeles. [5]

Writing

In 1997 Brookover optioned the movie rights to the book Time at the Top by Edward Ormondroyd and wrote a screenplay that was produced the following year by Showtime Networks. [6] [7] In 1998, Brookover was the production executive on the independent feature film Beat , for which she co-wrote the ayahuasca scenes between the characters William S. Burroughs (Kiefer Sutherland) and his paid consort Lee (Sam Trammell). [8]

In 2001, she co-wrote and produced with Christopher Coppola the short horror spoof Texas Vampire Massacre, [9] which provided "delightful 'excerpts' from a supposed B&W regional horror" as the fictional drive-in movie in Coppola's Bloodhead aka The Creature of the Sunny Side Up Trailer Park. [10] In 2002, she again co-produced with Coppola, the short Alzheimer's drama A Fish in the Desert, [11] which was based on her short story.

Beginning in 1996 Brookover wrote a series of articles—listed in the Bibliography—about film noir and the “politics” of the horror genre. During the same period she was an editor, interviewer, and essayist for the online Magazine OneWorld, to which she contributed pieces on such varied subject as the Pueblo Revolts, [12] American Indian activist Russell Means, [13] ayahuasca, [14] and the “Crocodile Files” [15] [16] that featured one of the earliest interviews with the late “crocodile hunter Steve Irwin.

Production

In addition to Beat and the two short films, Brookover was executive producer on the independent features White Nights (2005) and Nightcomer (2013). She has also worked as a performer, assisted in pre-production or in various production capacities on various film and television projects from Men Seeking Women (1997) and Time at the Top to I Survived! (2000) and Ghost Phone (2011).

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References

  1. ↑ "Linda Brookover". BFI. Archived from the original on February 12, 2019.
  2. ↑ "Linda Brookover". AlloCiné.
  3. ↑ "Linda Brookover".
  4. ↑ James Ursini, editor, Horror Film Reader, New York: Limelight, 2001, p. 317.
  5. ↑ Film Noir Compendium, Milwaukee: Applause, 2016, page 439
  6. ↑ "Playback: Quebec Scene". June 16, 1998.
  7. ↑ "Time at the Top" – via www.imdb.com.
  8. ↑ "Beat (2000)" – via www.imdb.com.
  9. ↑ "Texas Vampire Massacre" – via www.imdb.com.
  10. ↑ Dennis Harvey (April 6, 2004). "Bloodhead". Variety. Retrieved November 10, 2019.
  11. ↑ "A Fish in the Desert" – via www.imdb.com.
  12. ↑ "OneWorld Magazine: Deserts". July 2, 2001. Archived from the original on July 2, 2001.
  13. ↑ "Means..." www.dickshovel.com.
  14. ↑ "OneWorld Magazine - Ayahuasca, Power and Dreams". March 3, 2001. Archived from the original on March 3, 2001.
  15. ↑ "OneWorld Magazine - The Crocodile Files". February 18, 2003. Archived from the original on February 18, 2003.
  16. ↑ Dan Wylie, London: Reaktion Books, 2013, p. 117.
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