Refocus: The Films of Preston Sturges

ISBN-13: 9781474406550 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 336 str.

Jaeckle; Jeff 9781474406550; Sarah Kozloff

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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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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