ReFocus : : The Films of Elaine May /

ReFocus : : The Films of Elaine May / / Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Dean Brandum.

Explores the diverse career of director, screenwriter, comic and actor, Elaine MaySpanning from obscurity to notoriety, the films of director, screenwriter, actor and comic Elaine May have recently experienced a long-overdue renaissance. Although she made only four films — A New Leaf (1971), The Hea...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
VerfasserIn:
Heller-Nicholas, Alexandra,
Brandum, Dean,
MitwirkendeR:
Bastow, Clem,
Brandum, Dean,
Carr, Jeremy,
Deighan, Samm,
Freeman, Mark,
Heller-Nicholas, Alexandra,
Jeffery, Paul,
O’Farrell, Tim,
Smukler, Maya Montañez,
Wilson, Jake,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2019
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:ReFocus: The American Directors Series : RFADS
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.) :; 12 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Who’s Kidding?—Approaching Elaine May
  • Part 1 Beginnings
  • 1 Teenagers on Stage—The Comedy of Elaine May and Mike Nichols
  • Part 2 Critically Situating Elaine May
  • 2 Hollywood Can’t Wait: Elaine May and the Delusions of 1970s American Cinema
  • 3 Dangerous Business—Elaine May as Existential Improviser
  • Part 3 Elaine May’s Films as Director
  • 4 Kneeling on Glass—Elaine May’s A New Leaf (1971) as Screwball Black Comedy
  • 5 “Don’t Put A Milky Way in Someone’s Mouth When They Don’t Want It”: A Contemporary Feminist Rereading of Elaine May’s The Heartbreak Kid (1972)
  • 6 Mikey and Nicky (1976)—Elaine May and the Cassavetes Connection
  • 7 Cartographies of Catastrophe—Elaine May’s Ishtar (1987)
  • Part 4 Collaborations/Revelations
  • 8 In/Significant Gestures—Elaine May, Screen Performance, and Embodied Collaboration
  • 9 Otto É. May(zo)—Elaine May’s Screenplay of Otto Preminger’s Such Good Friends (1971) as Affirmation that Hell is Other People
  • 10 Spectral Elaine May—The Later Mike Nichols Collaborations and the Myth of the Recluse
  • Conclusion
  • 11 When in Doubt, Seduce: An Interview with Screenwriter Allie Hagan
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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