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Author : Douglas Sirk
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (141 download)
Download or read book Sirk on Sirk written by Douglas Sirk and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tom Ryan
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496822382
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)
Download or read book The Films of Douglas Sirk written by Tom Ryan and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known for powerful 1950s melodramas like All That Heaven Allows, Written on the Wind, The Tarnished Angels, and Imitation of Life, Douglas Sirk (1897–1987) brought to all his work a distinctive style that led to his reputation as one of twentieth-century film’s great directors. Sirk worked in Europe during the 1930s, mainly for Germany’s UFA studios, and then in America in the 1940s and ’50s. The Films of Douglas Sirk: Exquisite Ironies and Magnificent Obsessions provides an overview of his entire career, including Sirk’s work on musicals, comedies, thrillers, war movies, and westerns. One of the great ironists of the cinema, Sirk believed rules were there to be broken. Whether defying the decrees of Nazi authorities trying to turn film into propaganda or arguing with studios that insisted characters’ problems should always be solved and that endings should always restore order, what Sirk called “emergency exits” for audiences, Sirk always fought for his vision. Offering fresh insights into all of the director’s films and situating them in the culture of their times, critic Tom Ryan also incorporates extensive interview material drawn from a variety of sources, including his own conversations with the director. Furthermore, his enlightening study undertakes a detailed reconsideration of the generally overlooked novels and plays that served as sources for Sirk’s films, as well as providing a critical survey of previous Sirk commentary, from the time of the director’s “rediscovery” in the late 1960s up to the present day.
Author : Barbara Klinger
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253208750
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Melodrama and Meaning written by Barbara Klinger and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1994-08-22 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melodrama and Meaning is a major addition to the new historical approach to film studies. Barbara Klinger shows how institutions most associated with Hollywood cinema—academia, the film industry, review journalism, star publicity, and the mass media—create meaning and ideological identity for films. Chapters focus on Sirk's place in the development of film studies from the 1950s through the 1980s, as well as the history of the critical reception (both academic and popular) of Sirk's films, a history that outlines journalism's role in public tastemaking. Other chapters are devoted to Universal's selling of Written on the Wind, the machinery of star publicity and the changing image of Rock Hudson, and the contemporary "institutionalized" camp response to Sirk that has resulted from developments in mass culture.
Author : Douglas Sirk
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813516455
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (164 download)
Download or read book Imitation of Life written by Douglas Sirk and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Douglas Sirk (Claus Detler Sierck) was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1900. He made nine films before fleeing Nazi Germany, eventually coming to America. His best-known films, made during the 1950s--all of them melodramas--were Magnificent Obsession, All That Heaven Allows, The Tarnished Angels, Written on the Wind, and Imitation of Life (made in 1958, released in 1959). This volume includes the complete continuity script of the film, critical commentary and published reviews, interviews with the director, and a filmography and bibliography. It also includes an excellent introduction by Lucy Fischer.
Author : Robert B. Pippin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350195693
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Douglas Sirk written by Robert B. Pippin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-08 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It would be easy to dismiss the films of Douglas Sirk (1897-1987) as brilliant examples of mid-century melodrama with little to say to the contemporary world. Yet Robert Pippin argues that, far from being marginal pieces of sentimentality, Sirk's films are rich with irony, insight and depth. Indeed Sirk's films, often celebrated as classics of the genre, are attempts to subvert rather than conform to rules of conventional melodrama. The visual style, story and characters of films like All That Heaven Allows, Written on the Wind and Imitation of Life are explored to argue for Sirk as an incredibly nuanced moral thinker. Instead of imposing moralising judgements on his characters, Sirk presents them as people who do 'wrong' things often without understanding why or how, creating a complex and unsettling ethics. Pippin argues that it this moral ambiguity and ironic richness enables Sirk to produce films that grapple with important themes such as race, class and gender with real force and political urgency. Douglas Sirk: Filmmaker and Philosopher argues for a filmmaker who was a 'disruptive not restorative' auteur and one who broke the rules in the most interesting and subtle of ways.
Author : Fannie Hurst
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822333241
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (332 download)
Download or read book Imitation of Life written by Fannie Hurst and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2004-12-07 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reprint of the 1933 classic novel, the basis for two film versions, with a new introduciton.
Author : Douglas Sirk
Publisher : Viking
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sirk on Sirk written by Douglas Sirk and published by Viking. This book was released on 1972 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jon Halliday
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571261418
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)
Download or read book Sirk on Sirk written by Jon Halliday and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Douglas Sirk is one of the most neglected directors in American cinema. This book aims to rectify that and, through a survey of his career, to re-establish Sirk as one of the great stylists of Hollywood cinema. In 1937 Sirk left Germany, after a successful career in theatre and film, and came to Hollywood. From 1942 to 1958 he directed some 30 films, the most famous of which were a series of lush melodramas in the '50s, which were seen at the time as vehicles for stars such as Rock Hudson and Lana Turner. These films are now seen as perceptive dissections of the repressive conventions underlying American life, revealing a disintegrating society - a society of pretence and illusion, befogged by alcohol. Sirk's films are many-layered, the style transcending the melodrama and transforming the material into works of art.
Author : Victoria L. Evans
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474409415
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Douglas Sirk, Aesthetic Modernism and the Culture of Modernity written by Victoria L. Evans and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-24 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first truly interdisciplinary analysis to link Douglas Sirk's striking visual aesthetic to key movements in twentieth century art and architecture, this book reveals how the exaggerated artifice of Sirk's formal style emerged from his detailed understanding of the artistic debates that raged in 1920s Europe and the post-war United States. With detailed case studies of Final Chord and All That Heaven Allows, Victoria Evans demonstrates how Sirk attempted to dissolve the boundaries of cinema by assimilating elements of avant-garde art, architecture and design into the colour, composition and setting of many of his most well-known films. Treating Sirk's oeuvre as a continuum between his German and American periods, Evans argues that his mise-en-scene was the result of an interdisciplinary, transnational dialogue, and illuminates the broader cultural context in which his films appeared by establishing links between archival documents, Modernist manifestos and the philosophical writings of his peers.
Author : Louis Black
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477315446
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)
Download or read book CinemaTexas Notes written by Louis Black and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2018-02-26 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Austin’s thriving film culture, renowned for international events such as SXSW and the Austin Film Festival, extends back to the early 1970s when students in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin ran a film programming unit that screened movies for students and the public. Dubbed CinemaTexas, the program offered viewers a wide variety of films—old and new, mainstream, classic, and cult—at a time when finding and watching films after their first run was very difficult and prohibitively expensive. For each film, RTF graduate students wrote program notes that included production details, a sampling of critical reactions, and an original essay that placed the film and its director within context and explained the movie’s historical significance. Over time, CinemaTexas Program Notes became more ambitious and were distributed around the world, including to luminaries such as film critic Pauline Kael. This anthology gathers a sampling of CinemaTexas Program Notes, organized into four sections: “USA Film History,” “Hollywood Auteurs,” “Cinema-Fist: Renegade Talents,” and “America’s Shadow Cinema.” Many of the note writers have become prominent film studies scholars, as well as leading figures in the film, TV, music, and video game industries. As a collection, CinemaTexas Notes strongly contradicts the notion of an effortlessly formed American film canon, showing instead how local film cultures—whether in Austin, New York, or Europe—have forwarded the development of film studies as a discipline.
Author : Steve Sirk
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781441438638
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (386 download)
Download or read book A Massive Season written by Steve Sirk and published by . This book was released on 2009-09-30 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2008, after a dozen years that saw heartache give way to hopelessness, the Columbus Crew rose from the ashes and finally won their first MLS Cup. Steve Sirk was there all year, bumbling around in their presence, collecting the quotes, quips, and absurd observations that have made his Notebook column a must-read for diehard Crew fans. "A Massive Season" is the ultimate championship season scrapbook!THIS BOOK CONTAINS:*All 19 of Sirk's 2008 Notebooks, including the epic MLS Cup recap from California.*Recaps of those Notebook-less away games.*The blog entries before and after MLS Cup.*Several new essays sprinkled throughout.*A foreword by Dante Washington.*Footnote commentary.*Over 140 pro and amateur photos.*Notebook snippets from yesteryear.*Documentation of the joyous aftermath, from the Statehouse to the White House.*A special section featuring reaction from Crew alumni.
Author : Sarah Meehan Sirk
Publisher : Anchor Canada
ISBN 13 : 0385687605
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (856 download)
Download or read book The Dead Husband Project written by Sarah Meehan Sirk and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect for readers of George Saunders, Jennifer Egan and Heather O'Neill, a rich and inventive collection of exquisite short stories by a major newcomer to Canadian literature. In this deeply felt, compulsive and edgy work, Sarah Meehan Sirk shines a distinctive light on love and death in their many incarnations, pushing against the limits of the absurd while exposing piercing emotional truths about what it means to be gloriously, maddeningly alive. In "The Dead Husband Project," an artist who has planned to make an installation out of her terminally ill husband's dead body has to recalibrate when his diagnosis changes. In "The Date," an online dating match takes an unusual turn when the man who shows up to the restaurant has no face. In "Ozk," a young girl longs to connect with her socially isolated mother, a professor of mathematics who makes a radical discovery. Uncanny, sometimes violent, achingly sad and always profound, these stories showcase a writer with skill and empathy, and draw us in with a steady, unyielding grip.
Author : Marijke de Valck
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9053567682
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (535 download)
Download or read book Cinephilia written by Marijke de Valck and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They obsess over the nuances of a Douglas Sirk or Ingmar Bergman film; they revel in books such as François Truffaut's Hitchcock; they happily subscribe to the Sundance Channel—they are the rare breed known as cinephiles. Though much has been made of the classic era of cinephilia from the 1950s to the 1970s, Cinephilia documents the latest generation of cinephiles and their use of new technologies. With the advent of home theaters, digital recording devices, online film communities, cinephiles today pursue their dedication to film outside of institutional settings. A radical new history of film culture, Cinephilia breaks new ground for students and scholars alike.
Author : Elena del Rio
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748689427
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)
Download or read book Deleuze and the Cinemas of Performance written by Elena del Rio and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first study of the interface between Deleuzian theory and film performance.
Author : Jonathan Goldberg
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822374048
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Melodrama written by Jonathan Goldberg and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-21 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a new queer theorization of melodrama, Jonathan Goldberg explores the ways melodramatic film and literature provide an aesthetics of impossibility. Focused on the notion of what Douglas Sirk termed the "impossible situation" in melodrama, such as impasses in sexual relations that are not simply reflections of social taboo and prohibitions, Goldberg pursues films by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Todd Haynes that respond to Sirk's prompt. His analysis hones in on melodrama's original definition--a form combining music and drama--as he explores the use of melodrama in Beethoven's opera Fidelio, films by Alfred Hitchcock, and fiction by Willa Cather and Patricia Highsmith, including her Ripley novels. Goldberg illuminates how music and sound provide queer ways to promote identifications that exceed the bounds of the identity categories meant to regulate social life. The interaction of musical, dramatic, and visual elements gives melodrama its indeterminacy, making it resistant to normative forms of value and a powerful tool for creating new potentials.
Author : John Mercer
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231503067
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Melodrama written by John Mercer and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-06 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melodrama: Genre, Style and Sensibility is designed as an accessible overview of one of the most popular genres at undergraduate Film Studies. The book identifies three distinct but connected concepts through which it is possible to make sense of melodrama; either as a genre, originating in European theatre of the 18th and 19th century, as a specific cinematic style, epitomised by the work of Douglas Sirk or as a sensibility that emerges in the context of specific texts, speaking to and reflecting the desires, concerns and anxieties of audiences. Films discussed include All That Heaven Allows, Safe, Fear Eats the Soul, Black Narcissus, Suddenly Last Summer and Rebel Without a Cause. Each chapter includes overviews of key essays, analyses of significant and widely studied films and includes an annotated reading list.
Author : Matt Zoller Seitz
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1683355261
Total Pages : 748 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (833 download)
Download or read book The Sopranos Sessions written by Matt Zoller Seitz and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Sopranos Sessions, renowned television critics—and New York Times bestselling authors—Matt Zoller Seitz and Alan Sepinwall celebrate the 20th anniversary of one of the greatest television series of all time. Foreword by Laura Lippmann On January 10, 1999, a mobster walked into a psychiatrist’s office and changed TV history. By shattering preconceptions about the kinds of stories the medium should tell, The Sopranos launched our current age of prestige television, paving the way for such giants as Mad Men, The Wire, Breaking Bad, and Game of Thrones. As TV critics for Tony Soprano’s hometown paper, New Jersey’s The Star-Ledger, Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz were among the first to write about the series before it became a cultural phenomenon. Sepinwall and Seitz have reunited to produce The Sopranos Sessions, a collection of recaps, conversations, and critical essays covering every episode. Featuring a series of long-form interviews with series creator David Chase, as well as selections from the authors’ archival writing on the series, The Sopranos Sessions explores the show’s artistry, themes, and legacy. “This amazing book by Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz has bigger twists than anything I could ever come up with.” —Sam Esmail, creator of Mr. Robot
