Contributors
Tom Stempel
Tom Stempel is a Professor Emeritus in Film at Los Angeles City College, where he taught film history and screenwriting from 1971 to 2011. He is the author of six books on film, including 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 most recently Understanding Screenwriting: Learning from Good, Not-Quirte-So-Good, and Bad Screenplays. His shorter writings have appear in Film Quarterly, Los Angeles Times, Sight & Sound, Film Comment, Creative Screenwriting, Film & History, Senses of Cinema, and Journal of Screenwriting. Since 2008 he has written the online column “Script Magazine” (see link below).
Stempel photograph ©Alix Parson
Articles by Tom Stempel
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A Film Historian’s Changing Attitude Toward the New Motion Picture Academy
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The Women Who Ran Hollywood?
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A Continuation of the History of American Screenwriting 2000-2018, Part III
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A Continuation of the History of American Screenwriting 2000-2018, Part II
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A Continuation of the History of American Screenwriting 2000-2018, Part I
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Books about Directors: Five Came Back and Fred Zinnemann and the Cinema of Resistance
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Revolution & Sex: The Evolution of TV
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Tim Holt and the B Western
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Darryl vs. Spyros: Twentieth Century-Fox: The Zanuck-Skouras Years
