"Letterboxed: The Evolution of Widescreen Cinema explores the technological changes of the widescreen technique and how the format has inspired directors and also sparked debates among film critics. Examining early filmmakers such as Buster Keaton and D.W. Griffith and genre pio…
ACTION! Interviews with Directors from Classical Hollywood to Contemporary Iran presents nineteen outstanding interviews with directors past and present, from around the world, working in a variety of genres and budgets and production environments from major studios to indie and…
Douglas Sirk: filmmaker and philosopher
"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, insi…
Douglas Sirk: filmmaker and philosopher
Introduction: Irony as subversion -- Love and class in All that heaven allows -- Misplaced moralism in Written on the wind -- Living theater in Imitation of life -- Concluding remarks. "It would be easy to dismiss the films of Douglas Sirk (1897-1987) as brilliant examples of m…
Douglas Sirk. Filmmaker and philosopher
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, insig…
Douglas Sirk: filmmaker and philosopher
Douglas Sirk: filmmaker and philosopher
"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, insi…
Douglas Sirk: filmmaker and philosopher
"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, insi…
Douglas Sirk: filmmaker and philosopher
"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, insi…
Douglas Sirk: filmmaker and philosopher
"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, insi…
This new AFI Film Reader is the first comprehensive collection of original essays on the use of color in film. Contributors from diverse film studies backgrounds consider the importance of color throughout the history of the medium, assessing not only the theoretical implication…
Sirk on Sirk: interviews with Jon Halliday
by Halliday Jon, Sirk, Douglas
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Sirk on Sirk: interviews with Jon Halliday
by Sirk, Douglas, Halliday Jon
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