Refocus: The Films of Elaine May

ISBN-13: 9781474440189 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 264 str.

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas;Dean Brandum

Spis treści

Who’s Kidding? Approaching Elaine May, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas; Part I: Beginnings; Chapter One: Teenagers on Stage – The Comedy of Elaine May and Mike Nichols, Mark Freeman; Part II: Critically Situating Elaine May; Chapter Two: Hollywood Can’t Wait: Elaine May and the Delusions of 1970s American Cinema, Maya Montañez Smukler; Chapter Three: Dangerous Business – Elaine May as Existential Improviser, Jake Wilson; Part III: Elaine May’s Films as Director; Chapter Four: Kneeling on Glass – Elaine May’s A New Leaf (1971) as Screwball Black Comedy, Samm Deighan; Chapter Five: “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), Clem Bastow; Chapter Six: Mikey and Nicky (1976) – Elaine May and the Cassavetes Connection, Jeremy Carr; Chapter Seven: Cartographies of Catastrophe – Elaine May’s Ishtar (1987), Dean Brandum; Part IV: Collaborations/Revelations; Chapter Eight: In/Significant Gestures – Elaine May, Screen Performance, and Embodied Collaboration, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas; Chapter Nine: Otto É May(zo) – Elaine May’s Screenplay of Otto Preminger’s Such Good Friends (1971) as Affirmation That Hell is Other People, Paul Jeffrey; Chapter Ten: Spectral Elaine May – The Later Mike Nichols Collaborations and the Myth of the Recluse, Tim O’Farrell; Conclusion: Chapter Eleven: When in Doubt, Seduce: An Interview with Screenwriter Allie Hagen, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Dean Brandum; Bibliography