ReFocus : : The Films of Preston Sturges /

ReFocus : : The Films of Preston Sturges / / Jeff Jaeckle, Sarah Kozloff.

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The first collection of critical essays on Hollywood director and screenwriter Preston SturgesRead and download the introduction for free here (pdf)Director, screenwriter and comic genius, Preston Sturges has been an influence on filmmakers ranging from Orson Welles to the Coen brothers. The first p...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
VerfasserIn:
Jaeckle, Jeff,
Kozloff, Sarah,
MitwirkendeR:
Beach, Christopher,
Bernstein, Matthew H.,
Carson, Diane,
Gabbard, Krin,
Grindon, Leger,
Jaeckle, Jeff,
Karnick, Kristine Brunovska,
Kozloff, Sarah,
Marks, Martin,
McElhaney, Joe,
Poe, G. Tom,
Viviani, Christian,
Wexman, Virginia Wright,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:ReFocus: The American Directors Series : RFADS
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.) :; 30 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction: An Agile Mind—The Many Stands of Preston Sturges
  • Part 1 Contexts: Genre, Studio, Authorship
  • 1 Preston Sturges and Screwball Comedy
  • 2 Preston Sturges, Sullivan’s Travels, and Film Authorship in Hollywood, 1941
  • 3 To Write and Not Direct
  • 4 “The Edge of Unacceptability”: Preston Sturges and the PCA
  • Part 2 Cultural Commentary: History and Identity
  • 5 Sturges’s Many Mothers
  • 6 “These Are Troublous Times”: Social Class in the Comedies of Preston Sturges
  • 7 “They Always Get the Best of You Somehow”: Preston Sturges in Black and White
  • 8 Falling Hard: The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
  • Part 3 Technique: Scripting, Performance, Music
  • 9 The Unheard Song of Joy
  • 10 The Eye of the Storm: Preston Sturges and Performance
  • 11 Presto(n) con Spirito: Comedies with Music, Sturges-style
  • Part 4 Impact: Reception/Reputation
  • 12 Thrust with a Rapier and Run: The Critics and Preston Sturges
  • 13 Hail the Conquering Auteur: Preston Sturges in La Revue du cinéma (1946–1949)
  • 14 O Preston, Where Art Thou?
  • Index

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