Robert Wise shadowlands / Wes D. Gehring.

Author/creator Gehring, Wes D.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoIndianapolis : Indiana Historical Society Press,
Descriptionxxvii, 322 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [315]-322) and filmography.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2011034751
ISBN9780871952967 (cloth : alk. paper)

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