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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Ryan, Tom (Film writer) (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2019]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.