Robert Wise : shadowlands ; a Wes D. Gehring biography.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Indianapolis : Indiana Historical Society Press, 2012Description: 1 online resource (351 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780871953476 (ebook)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Robert Wise.DDC classification:
  • 791.4302/33092 B 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1998.3.W569 G46 2012eb
Online resources:
Contents:
The early years -- A career detour: 1930s Hollywood -- Orson Welles -- Val Lewton and becoming a director -- Lewton and Maupassant: a template picture -- Wise's first noir classic: Born to kill -- Signature cinema: the set-up -- Life after RKO: The day the earth stood still and genre diversity -- Melodrama in various war settings: Run silent, run deep as metaphor -- "portraits" and biographies doubling as melodramas and/or noirs -- Wise's brass-ring decade: the 1960s -- Filmmaking: "a terribly expensive paint box" -- Epilogue.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-322) and filmography.

The early years -- A career detour: 1930s Hollywood -- Orson Welles -- Val Lewton and becoming a director -- Lewton and Maupassant: a template picture -- Wise's first noir classic: Born to kill -- Signature cinema: the set-up -- Life after RKO: The day the earth stood still and genre diversity -- Melodrama in various war settings: Run silent, run deep as metaphor -- "portraits" and biographies doubling as melodramas and/or noirs -- Wise's brass-ring decade: the 1960s -- Filmmaking: "a terribly expensive paint box" -- Epilogue.

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