The films of Douglas Sirk : exquisite ironies and magnificent obsessions /

"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...

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Main Author: Ryan, Tom (Film writer) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2019]
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505 0 |a Detlef Sierck in Europe -- American beginnings: the European legacy -- In the shadows: Sirk and the noir inclination -- The uncomfortable comedies -- Sirk and God: 'the pure ambiguity of experience' -- Pastoral yearnings: Sirk and the musical -- Hollywood, Rock Hudson, and the idea of the hero -- Sirk, the family melodrama, and the production code -- Sirk and John M. Stahl: adaptations and remakes -- Out of the past -- Into the future: Sirk's legacy. 
520 |a "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." -- Provided by publisher. 
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