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This book does for Donald Westlake what Paperback Celluloid did for El a reverse auteurish analysis of the film adaptations of his novels Donald Westlake is arguably one of the foremost American writers of the 20th century Unlike Leonard however this view is not widely beside Bill Kristol who once proposed Westlake for the Nobel Prize for literature and Booker prize awardee John Banville who declared him one of the great novelists of the 20th century Westlake has received very little acknowledgment outside of crime fiction circles and next to no scholarly attention Donald Westlake worked assiduously with and for the film industry and not only in the 33 films seven of which are French one German one Indian spoken in Tamil one Iranian and one Italian Westlake had a generally unfavourable views of the film adaptations of his work but he tended to be philosophical about it and understood them as autonomous means of artistic expression Some of the films based on Donald Westlake s novels or screenplays original or adapted can be said to be canonical John Boorman s Point Blank 1967 Stephen Frears The Grifters 1990 or not least if in a different ecosystem Jean Luc Godard s Made in USA 1966 Others are less highly rated but maybe entertaining such as Peter Yates The Hot Rock 1967 or Costa Gavras Le couperet 2005 The remainder ranges from the decent to the dismal Can the spirit of Donald Westlake s fiction be detected behind such multifarious output Flickering Capers Donald Westlake on FilmAlong the same lines of Paperback Celluloid but a riper final product You don t have to agree with everything the author writes He doesn t himself English