Keith Cohen's "Writing in a Film Age" (1991)

Niwot, Colorado, US: University Press of Colorado (book, anthology, essays), 1991.
9" x 5.875" x 0.625", 308 pages, softcover, ISBN 0-87081-180-0.

Writing in a Film Age: Essays by Contemporary Novelists, edited by Keith Cohen and published by University Press of Colorado (Niwot, Colorado, US) in 1991. As noted, an anthology of essays by novelists on film.

This includes an introduction to William S. Burroughs by the editor, pp. 47-52, followed by "Screenwriting and the Potentials of Cinema" by William S. Burroughs, pp. 53-86. The Burroughs essay is "an edited version of five lectures Burroughs delivered June 10 and 12, 1975, and July 20, 22, and 25, 1977, at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado."

Not in Shoaf. Not in Schottlaender.

Contents:

• Preface
• Introduction:
• "Capacities of Cinema: Thoughts, Dreams, and Repetition"
• "The Word, the Image"
• "Rules of the Game and the Questionof Verisimilitude"
• "Innovation, Avant-garde"
• "Art, Ideology, Taste"
• Part 1: Up Against Cinema:
• Keith Cohen: "William S. Burroughs"
• William S. Burroughs: "Screenwriting and the Potentials of Cinema"
• Keith Cohen: "Marguerite Duras"
• Marguerite Duras: "Green eyes (Les Yeux verts): Selections"
• Keith Cohen: "Alain Robbe-Grillet"
• Alain Robbe-Grillet: "For a New Cinema"
• Keith Cohen: "Alexander Kluge"
• Alexander Kluge: "Word and Film"
• Keith Cohen: "Ronald Sukenick"
• Ronald Sukenick: "Film Digression"
• Part 2: Writing Film Into a System:
• Keith Cohen: "Jorge Luis Borges"
• Jose Luis Borges: "The Future of a Fiction"
• Keith Cohen: "Pier Paolo Passolini"
• Pier Paolo Passolini: "Aspects of a Semiology of Cinema"
• Part 3: Cinema: The Other Apprenticeship:
• Keith Cohen: "Jonathan Baumbach"
• Jonathan Baumbach: "Seeing Myself in Movies"
• Keith Cohen: "Ben Stolzfus"
• Ben Stolzfus: "Shooting With the Pen"
• Keith Cohen: "Manuel Puig"
• Manuel Puig: "How the Provincial Argentine Left Literature for the Movies, Thereby Discovering the Immense Potentials of the Novel" 
• Bibliography
• Filmography
• Index