Written on the Wind

ISBN-13: 9781844574209 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 104 str.

Evans Peter William

Opis

This is the first single study of Douglas Sirk's 1956 film Written on the Wind, a melodrama about an alcoholic playboy who marries the woman his best friend secretly loves. Peter Evans incorporates original archival research to examine the production, promotion and reception of this masterpiece of Hollywood melodrama.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments .- Overture: The Wind .- 1 Production and Promotion .- 2 Realism, Modernism and Melodrama .- 3 Mise en scene .- 4 Dorothy Malons/Marylee: 'Enough devil in her...' .- 5 Lauren Bacall: 'A lady, a beautiful lady' .- 6 Rock Hudson and Robert Stack: Cain and Abel .- Coda: The River .- Synopsis .- Notes .- Credits .- Bibliography.

O autorze

PETER WILLIAM EVANS is Emeritus Professor of Film at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. His publications include Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1996) and Written on the Wind (2013) in the BFI Film Classics series; Luis Buñuel: New Readings (co-edited, 2004), and Carol Reed (2005).