The Films of Douglas Sirk : Exquisite Ironies and Magnificent Obsessions /
"Best known for powerful 1950s melodramas like All That Heaven Allows, Written on the Wind, The Tarnished Angels, and Imitation of Life, Douglas Sirk (1897-1987) brought to all his work a distinctive style that led to his reputation as one of twentieth-century film's great directors. Sirk...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
[2019]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Detlef Sierck in Europe
- American beginnings: the European legacy
- In the shadows: Sirk and the noir inclination
- The uncomfortable comedies
- Sirk and God: 'the pure ambiguity of experience'
- Pastoral yearnings: Sirk and the musical
- Hollywood, Rock Hudson, and the idea of the hero
- Sirk, the family melodrama, and the production code
- Sirk and John M. Stahl: adaptations and remakes
- Out of the past
- Into the future: Sirk's legacy.