Kevin L. Stoehr, Cullen Gallagher

King Vidor in Focus

On the Filmmaker's Artistry and Vision

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

King Vidor (1894-1982) had the longest career of any Hollywood director, and his works include some of the most dramatic, sublime moments in the history of American cinema. Regarded by many film historians as one of the greatest of silent era filmmakers--especially for masterworks The Big Parade, The Crowd, and Show People--Vidor is nonetheless one of the most underrated of Hollywood's "old masters" in terms of his overall career. His sound era films include Hallelujah, Street Scene, The Champ, The Stranger's Return, Our Daily Bread, Stella Dallas, The Citadel, Northwest Passage, Duel in the Sun, Beyond the Forest, The Fountainhead, Ruby Gentry and War and Peace. He also helped to establish the Screen Directors Guild and served as its first president. This book charts the ways in which Vidor's vast, complex body of work ranges over diverse genres and styles while also expressing his recurring personal interests in spirituality (especially Christian Science), aesthetics, metaphysics, social realism, and the myth of America. The first book since 1988 to give a comprehensive view of Vidor's career, it discusses his artistic evolution in a way that appeals to the general reader as well as to the film scholar.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 641g
• ISBN-13: 9781476670096
• ISBN-10: 1476670099
• Artikelnr.: 71735804

Autorenporträt

Kevin L. Stoehr is an associate professor of humanities and the chair of the Division of Humanities in the College of General Studies at Boston University. He lives in Wells, Maine.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: A Boy's Love of Moving Images One.
1913-1917: Missing Reels and First Films Two.
1918-1919: The Turning Point Bud's Recruit (1918) delete The Turn in the Road, Better Times, The Other Half, Poor Relations (All 1919) delete Three.
1920-1921: The Humanist Emerges The Family Honor, The Jack-Knife Man, Mothercraft, The Sky Pilot, and Love Never Dies delete Four.
1922-1923: Rising and Falling Stars The Woman of Bronze, Three Wise Fools, The Real Adventure, Dusk to Dawn, Conquering the Woman, and Peg O' My Heart delete Five.
1924: Personality Crisis Wild Oranges delete Gulliver's Travels, Happiness, Wine of Youth, His Hour, The Wife of the Centaur delete Six.
1925: Proud Flesh and The Big Parade Proud Flesh delete The Big Parade delete Seven.
1926: La Bohème and Bardelys the Magnificent La Bohème delete Bardelys the Magnificent delete Eight.
1927-1928: The Crowd, The Patsy, and Show People The Crowd (1928) delete The Patsy (1928) delete Show People (1928) delete Nine.
1929: Hallelujah Ten.
1930: Not So Dumb and Billy the Kid Not So Dumb delete Billy the Kid delete Eleven.
1931: Street Scene and The Champ Street Scene delete The Champ delete Twelve.
1932: Bird of Paradise and Cynara Bird of Paradise delete Cynara delete Thirteen.
1933: The Stranger's Return Fourteen.
1934-1936: Our Daily Bread, So Red the Rose, The Wedding Night, and The Texas Rangers Our Daily Bread (1934) delete So Red the Rose (1935) delete The Wedding Night (1935) delete The Texas Rangers (1936) delete Fifteen.
1937: Stella Dallas Sixteen.
1938-1939: The Citadel and The Wizard of Oz The Citadel (1938) delete The Wizard of Oz (1939) delete Seventeen.
1940: Comrade X and Northwest Passage Comrade X delete Northwest Passage delete Eighteen.
1941-1944: H.M. Pulham, Esq. and An American Romance H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941) delete An American Romance (1944) delete Nineteen.
1946: Duel in the Sun Twenty.
1948-1949: On Our Merry Way, The Fountainhead, and Beyond the Forest On Our Merry Way (1948) delete The Fountainhead (1949) delete Beyond the Forest (1949) delete Twenty-One.
1951-1955: Lightning Strikes Twice, Japanese War Bride, Ruby Gentry, and Man Without a Star Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) delete Japanese War Bride (1952) delete Ruby Gentry (1952) delete Man Without a Star (1955) delete Twenty-Two.
1956-1959: War and Peace and Solomon and Sheba War and Peace (1956) delete Solomon and Sheba (1959) delete Twenty-Three.
1964 and 1980: Truth and Illusion and The Metaphor Truth and Illusion (1964) delete The Metaphor (1980) delete Author's Transcript of Truth and Illusion delete Filmography: King Vidor as Director Chapter Notes Bibliography Index