Tom Stempel

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Tom Stempel (born 1941) is an American film scholar and critic. He is a Professor Emeritus in Film at Los Angeles City College, where he taught from 1971 to 2011.

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His students at LACC included writer director, Maggie Greenwald and Karen Moncrieff, directors Tamra Davis and Emmy-award winning Mimi Leder, film editors Carole Kravitz and Academy Award-nominated Kevin Tent,Academy Award-winning short filmmaker Ron Ellis and Rick Schmidlin who received The New York Film Critics Circle award for the re-edit of Touch of Evil. An expert and teacher of screenwriting, he has written for Film Quarterly , Los Angeles Times , Sight & Sound , Film & History , Senses of Cinema, Slant Magazine, [1] [2] and has contributed to the Journal of Screenwriting .

Books

He is the author of books such as Screenwriter: the Life and Times of Nunnally Johnson, FrameWork: A History of Screenwriting in the American Film, Storytellers to the Nation: A History of American Television Writing, and Understanding Screenwriting: Learning from Good, Not-Quite-So-Good, and Bad Screenplays. [1] Philip Dunne, the screenwriter of How Green Was My Valley, said in this Foreword to FrameWork [3] that the book was "the definitive work on the history of screenwriting." According to Ian Scott, Stempel's book FrameWork "sets out a number of reasons that a wave of playwrights, journalists, and short-story writers made their way to Hollywood, principally from New York, in the late 1920s and early '30s". [4]

Other film historians who have acknowledged Stempel's influence in the field and in their research include Ally Acker, [5] Douglas Heil, [6] Claus Tieber, [7] Steven Maras, [8] Steven Price, [9] and Jill Nelmes and Jule Selbo. [10] Since 2008 Stempel has written the on-line column "Understanding Screenwriting," in which he reviews new movies, old movies, and television from the screenwriting perspective. From 2008 to 2013, it appeared in Slant Magazine/House Next Door, and from 2013 on at www.creativescreenwiting.com.

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References

  1. 1 2 "Tom Stempel". Offscreen.com. Retrieved 28 August 2015.
  2. ↑ "Tom Stempel". Slant Magazine. Retrieved 28 August 2015.
  3. ↑ Stempel, Tom (1988). FrameWork: A History of Screenwriting in the American Film. New York: Continuum. pp.  vii. ISBN   0-8264-0411-1.
  4. ↑ Scott, Ian (5 February 2015). In Capra's Shadow: The Life and Career of Screenwriter Robert Riskin. University Press of Kentucky. p. 10. ISBN   978-0-8131-5966-9.
  5. ↑ Acker, Ally (1991). Reel Women: Pioneers of the Cinema 1896 to the Present. New York: Continuum. ISBN   0-8264-0499-5.
  6. ↑ Heil, Douglas (2002). Prime-Time Authorship: Works About and by Three TV Dramatists. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press. ISBN   0-8156-2878-1.
  7. ↑ Tieber, Claus (2008). Schreiben fur Hollywood. Vienna, Austria: Lit Verlag GmbH. ISBN   978-3-7000-0801-9.
  8. ↑ Maras, Steven (2009). Screenwriting: History, Theory and Practice. London: Wallflower Press. ISBN   978-1-905674-81-7.
  9. ↑ Price, Steven (2013). A History of the Screenplay. New York: Palgrave macmillan. ISBN   978-0-230-29181-2.
  10. ↑ Nelmes, Jill, and Jule Selbo (2015). Woman Screenwriters: An International Guide. New York: Palgrave macmillan. ISBN   978-1-137-31236-5.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  11. ↑ "Talking Back to Documentaries | The House Next Door". Slant Magazine . Archived from the original on 2010-05-07.
  12. ↑ "Darryl F. Zanuck: 19th Century-Fox – Senses of Cinema". 10 July 2016.


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