Robert Wise: ShadowlandsIndiana Historical Society, 2012 - 322 pagine Born in Winchester, Indiana, Robert Wise spent much of his youth sitting in darkened movie theaters enthralled by the swashbuckling heroics of screen legend Douglas Fairbanks Sr. Through these viewings, Wise developed a passion for film—a passion he followed for the rest of his life, making movies in Hollywood. Nationally known film historian Wes D. Gehring explores Wise’s life from his days in the Hoosier State to the beginning of his movie career at RKO studios working as the editor of Orson Welles’s classic movie Citizen Kane. Wise is best known for producing and directing two of the most memorable movie musicals in cinema history, West Side Story (co-director Jerome Robbins) and The Sound of Music, for which he won four Academy Awards—two Best Picture and Best Directors Oscars. But, as Gehring notes, other than Howard Hawks, Wise was arguably Hollywood’s most versatile director of various celebrated genre films. |
Sommario
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1930s Hollywood | 17 |
Chapter 3 Orson Welles | 31 |
Chapter 4 Val Lewton and Becoming a Director | 59 |
A Template Picture | 83 |
Born to Kill | 101 |
The Set Up | 117 |
The Day the Earth Stood Still and Genre Diversity | 135 |
Chapter 10 Portraits and Biographies Doubling as Melodramas andor Noirs | 175 |
The 1960s | 207 |
A Terribly Expensive Paint Box | 245 |
Epilogue | 279 |
Filmography | 287 |
Notes | 293 |
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Run Silent Run Deep as Metaphor | 155 |
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