André Bazin, the Critic as Thinker American Cinema from Early Chaplin to the Late 1950s /

André Bazin, the Critic as Thinker American Cinema from Early Chaplin to the Late 1950s /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Cardullo, R. J. (Editor)
Summary:XX, 338 p.
text
Language:English
Published: Rotterdam : SensePublishers : Imprint: SensePublishers, 2017.
Edition:1st ed. 2017.
Subjects:
Education.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-878-5
Format: Electronic Book
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Film Images
  • Introduction
  • I: Themes and Genres
  • Westerns and Americans
  • Howard Hughes’s The Outlaw
  • A Meta-Western: Fred Zinnemann’s High Noon
  • The Western, or the American Film Par Excellence
  • The Evolution of the Western
  • Brilliant Variations on Some Well-Known Notes: Nicholas Ray’s Johnny Guitar
  • The Exemplary Beauty of Westerns: Anthony Mann’s The Man from Laramie and Budd Boetticher’s Seven Men from Now
  • War and Peace
  • Howard Hawks’s Air Force
  • On Frank Capra’s Why We Fight: History, Documentation, and the Newsreel
  • On Ambiguity: John Huston’s The Red Badge of Courage
  • War Films: Richard Fleischer’s Between Heaven and Hell and Anthony Mann’s Men in War
  • Stanley Kramer’s The Pride and the Passion
  • High Infidelity: David Lean’s The Bridge on the River Kwai
  • Stars and Goddesses
  • Entomology of the Pin-Up Girl
  • Henry Hathaway’s Niagara
  • Doll in the Flesh, Cotton on Fire: Elia Kazan’s Baby Doll
  • The Death of Humphrey Bogart
  • The Question of James Dean
  • Off the Beaten Path: John Cromwell’s The Goddess
  • Fugitives and Criminals
  • Howard Hawks’s Scarface and the Gangster Film
  • Joseph Losey’s M: Remade in the U.S.A.
  • Women in Cages: John Cromwell’s Caged
  • Film through a Telephoto Lens: Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, & Ruth Orkin’s The Little Fugitive
  • Sociological Routines: Philip Dunne’s Ten North Frederick
  • Jean Renoir’s The Woman on the Beach, The Southerner, and The Diary of a Chambermaid
  • II: Artists and Directors
  • Charles Chaplin [1889–1977]
  • Charlie Chaplin
  • The Myth of Monsieur Verdoux
  • Limelight, or the Death of Molière
  • The Grandeur of Limelight
  • Alfred Hitchcock [1899–1980]
  • On Shadow of a Doubt, Lifeboat, and Rear Window
  • Pan Shot of Hitchcock
  • Must We Believe in Hitchcock?
  • Hitchcock vs. Hitchcock
  • Erich von Stroheim [1885–1957]
  • Erich von Stroheim: Form, Uniform, and Cruelty
  • Preston Sturges [1898–1959]
  • On Sullivan’s Travels
  • On The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
  • On Hail the Conquering Hero
  • On Mad Wednesday
  • Orson Welles [1915–85]
  • The Technique of Citizen Kane
  • On Welles’s Othello
  • Interview with Orson Welles
  • Orson Welles Cannibalized
  • William Wyler [1902–81]
  • William Wyler, or the Jansenist of Directing
  • Film Credits (in order of discussion)
  • A Bazin Bibliography
  • Index.

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