Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay

annie proulx larry mcmurtry diana ossana

Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary literature, and for many readers and reviewers, Brokeback Mountain is her masterpiece. Now the major motion picture "Brokeback Mountain" is being hailed as equally masterful, with performances that are "the stuff of Hollywood history" (The New York Times). Brokeback Story to Screenplay offers readers insight into how this classic short story was turned into an award-winning screenplay and film.Brokeback Mountain was originally published in The New Yorker. It won the National Magazine Award. It also won an O. Henry Prize. Included in this volume is Annie Proulx's haunting story about the difficult, dangerous love affair between a ranch hand and a rodeo cowboy. Also included is the Oscar-nominated and Golden Globe-winning screenplay for the major motion picture, written by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana. All three writers have contributed essays on the process of adapting this critically acclaimed story for film. This book is an indispensable tool for film students and aficionados.

Genres fictionshort storiesromancelgbtqueergaywesternscontemporaryaudiobookclassics

176 pages, Hardcover

First published October 13,1997

Series

Wyoming Stories

Literary awards

o. henry award,

Places

wyoming, the united states of america,

This edition

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Published: April 11, 2006 by Scribner
ISBN: 9780743298155
ASIN: 0743298152
Language: English

Characters More characters

Ennis Del Mar

A rough-mannered, paycheck-to-paycheck ranch worker. Enniss parents died in an auto accident when he was young, and he was raised by his older brother and sister. Although he falls in love with Jack Twist during their summer on Brokeback Mountain, he marr...
Alma Beers

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Jack Twist (brokeback Mountain)

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About the author

annie proulx

Edna Annie Proulx (Chinese:安妮普鲁) is an American journalist and author. Her second novel, The Shipping News (1993), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for fiction in 1994. Her short story "Brokeback Mountain" was adapted as an Academy Award, BAFTA and Golden Globe Award-winning major motion picture released in 2005. Brokeback Mountain received massive critical acclaim and went on to be nominated for a leading eight Academy Awards, winning three of them. (However, the movie did not win Best Picture, a situation with which Proulx made public her disappointment.) She won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her first novel, Postcards.

She has written most of her stories and books simply as Annie Proulx, but has also used the names E. Annie Proulx and E.A. Proulx.