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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gehring, Wes D.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Indianapolis : Indiana Historical Society Press, 2012.
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Table of 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.