Robert Wise : : shadowlands ; a Wes D. Gehring biography.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Indianapolis : : Indiana Historical Society Press,, 2012. |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (351 pages) :; illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- The early years
- A career detour: 1930s Hollywood
- Orson Welles
- Val Lewton and becoming a director
- Lewton and Maupassant: a template picture
- Wise's first noir classic: Born to kill
- Signature cinema: the set-up
- Life after RKO: The day the earth stood still and genre diversity
- Melodrama in various war settings: Run silent, run deep as metaphor
- "portraits" and biographies doubling as melodramas and/or noirs
- Wise's brass-ring decade: the 1960s
- Filmmaking: "a terribly expensive paint box"
- Epilogue.