ReFocus. The films of Elaine May /
This collection focuses both on the films Elaine May has directed, and also emphasises her work with other high profile collaborators such as John Cassavetes, Warren Beatty and Otto Preminger.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2019]
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Colección: | ReFocus, the American directors series.
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Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- ReFocus: The Films of Elaine May
- Copyright
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Who's Kidding?-Approaching Elaine May
- part 1 Beginnings
- 1 Teenagers on Stage-The Comedy of Elaine May and Mike Nichols
- Part 2 Critically Situating Elaine May
- 2 Hollywood Can't Wait: Elaine May and the Delusions of 1970s American Cinema
- 3 Dangerous Business-Elaine May as Existential Improviser
- Part 3 Elaine May's Films as Director
- 4 Kneeling on Glass-Elaine May's A New Leaf (1971) as Screwball Black Comedy
- 5 "Don't Put A Milky Way in Someone's Mouth When They Don't Want It": A Contemporary Feminist Rereading of Elaine May's The Heartbreak Kid (1972)
- 6 Mikey and Nicky (1976)-Elaine May and the Cassavetes Connection
- 7 Cartographies of Catastrophe-Elaine May's Ishtar (1987)
- Part 4 Collaborations/Revelations
- 8 In/Significant Gestures-Elaine May, Screen Performance, and Embodied Collaboration
- 9 Otto É. May(zo)-Elaine May's Screenplay of Otto Preminger's Such Good Friends (1971) as Affirmation that Hell is Other People
- 10 Spectral Elaine May-The Later Mike Nichols Collaborations and the Myth of the Recluse
- Conclusion
- 11 interview with allie hagan When in Doubt, Seduce: An Interview with Screenwriter Allie Hagan
- Bibliography
- Index