George Cukor : : Hollywood Master /

George Cukor : : Hollywood Master / / Murray Pomerance, R. Barton Palmer.

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A critical analysis of the films and career of George CukorOne of the studio era's most famous and admired directors, George Cukor made some of American cinema's most beloved classics, including The Women, Gaslight, Adam's Rib, A Star is Born, and My Fair Lady. Not himself a scriptwri...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
VerfasserIn:
Pomerance, Murray,
Palmer, R. Barton,
MitwirkendeR:
Carruthers, Lee,
DeAngelis, Michael,
Keil, Charlie,
Krohn, Bill,
Lennard, Dominic,
Morrison, James,
Palmer, R. Barton,
Pomerance, Murray,
Ray, Robert B.,
Turim, Maureen,
Williams, Linda Ruth,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2015
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (200 p.) :; 35 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 Cukor's Tragicomedies of Marriage: Dinner at Eight, No More Ladies, The Women, and The Marrying Kind
  • 2 George Cukor's Late Style: Justine, Travels With My Aunt, and Rich and Famous
  • 3 Libel, Scandal, and Bad Big Names: It Should Happen to You, Les Girls, Camille, and Romeo and Juliet
  • 4 The Cukor "Problem": David Copperfield, Holiday, and The Philadelphia Story
  • 5 Modulations of the Shot: The Quiet Film Style of George Cukor in What Price Hollywood?, Born Yesterday, Sylvia Scarlett, and My Fair Lady
  • 6 Doubling in the Cinema of George Cukor: The Royal Family of Broadway, A Bill of Divorcement, A Double Life, and Bhowani Junction
  • 7 George Cukor and the Case of an Actor's Director: Hepburn and/or Tracy in Little Women, The Actress, Keeper of the Flame, Adam's Rib, and Pat and Mike
  • 8 Cukor Maudit: Tarnished Lady, Girls About Town, Our Betters, Susan and God, Desire Me, Edward, My Son, The Model and the Marriage Broker, Let's Make Love, and The Chapman Report
  • 9 George Cukor's Theatrical Feminism: Gaslight, Heller in Pink Tights, A Life of Her Own, and A Star is Born
  • 10 The Furthest Side of Paradise: Two-Faced Woman, A Woman's Face, Hot Spell, Wild is the Wind, and Winged Victory
  • Works Cited and Consulted
  • Index

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