Klawans Crooked, but Never Common

The Films of Preston Sturges
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-231-55690-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch

In Crooked, but Never Common, Stuart Klawans combines a critic’s insight and a fan’s enthusiasm to offer deeper ways to think about and enjoy Preston Sturges’s work. He provides an in-depth appreciation of all ten of the writer-director’s major movies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Klawans, Stuart

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmproduktion, Filmtechnik
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Einzelne Filmschauspieler, Filmregisseure, Drehbuchautoren

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Instead of an Introduction: A Rhetoric of Preston Sturges
2. Ya Can’t Get Away from Arithmetic: The Great McGinty
3. He Thinks He Has Ideas: Christmas in July
4. I’m Not a Poet, I’m an Ophiologist: The Lady Eve
5. As You Are, So Shall You Remain: Sullivan’s Travels
6. Topic A: The Palm Beach Story
7. Homo Sapiens, the Wise Guy: Triumph Over Pain
8. Psycholology: The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
9. That’s All You Know How to Hurt: Hail the Conquering Hero
10. You Arouse the Artist in Me: The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
11. Every Emotion Was Exaggerated: Unfaithfully Yours
12. Instead of a Conclusion: A Genealogy of Preston Sturges
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Stuart Klawans was the longtime film critic for the Nation, for which he received a National Magazine Award. He is the author of Film Follies: The Cinema Out of Order (1999) and has contributed to the New York Times, the Times Literary Supplement, Film Comment, and Parnassus: Poetry in Review.