ReFocus: The Films of Preston Sturges (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Jaeckle, Jeff; Kozloff, Sarah

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Director, screenwriter and comic genius, Preston Sturges has been an influence on filmmakers ranging from Orson Welles to the Coen brothers. The first person to win an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, he wrote and directed some of the most bizarre, controversial, and downright hilarious comedies of the 1940s, including Sullivan's Travels and Hail the Conquering Hero. He may be the most talented Hollywood filmmaker yet to receive the critical recognition he deserves. The Films of Preston Sturges is a pioneering collection of essays by world-famous scholars that chart Sturges' contributions to Hollywood cinema, revealing his pivotal status as an early writer-director, exploring his inimitable style, and making a bold case for his ongoing influence today. Reawakening interest in this filmmaker's life and works, this book will remind readers why Sturges' movies remain not only immensely enjoyable, but of great cultural significance as well.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474406567
• Artikelnr.: 44755261

Autorenporträt

Jeff Jaeckle is the editor of Film Dialogue (Wallflower Press, 2013) and co-editor (with Sarah Kozloff) of ReFocus: The Films of Preston Sturges (EUP, 2015). His scholarship on language in cinema, aesthetics and Hollywood film has also appeared in Film Quarterly, New Review of Film and Television Studies and Quarterly Review of Film and Video. He holds a doctorate from the University of Texas-Austin and teaches at Portland Community College. Sarah Kozloff is Professor of Film on the William R. Kenan Jr. Chair, Vassar College

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: An Agile Mind: The Many Stands of Preston Sturges
Jeff Jaeckle Contexts: Genre
Studio
Authorship Preston Sturges and Screwball Comedy
Leger Grindon Preston Sturges
Sullivan's Travels
and Film Authorship in Hollywood
1941
Virginia Wright Wexman To Write and Not Direct
Sarah Kozloff "The Edge of Unacceptability": Preston Sturges and the PCA
Matthew Bernstein Cultural Commentary: History and Identity Sturges's Many Mothers
Kristine Karnick "These Are Troublous Times": Social Class in the Comedies of Preston Sturges
Christopher Beach "They Always Get the Best of You Somehow": Preston Sturges in Black and White
Krin Gabbard Falling Hard: The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
Joe McElhaney Technique: Scripting
Performance
Music The Unheard Song of Joy
Jeff Jaeckle The Eye of the Storm: Preston Sturges and Performance
Diane Carson Presto(n) con Spirito: Comedies with Music
Sturges-Style
Martin Marks Impact: Reception/Reputation Thrust with a Rapier and Run: The Critics and Preston Sturges
G. Tom Poe Hail the Conquering Auteur: Preston Sturges in La Revue du cinéma (1946-1949)
Christian Viviani O Preston
Where Art Thou?
Sarah Kozloff