George Cukor : Hollywood master /: Hollywood master. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Murray Pomerance and R. Barton Palmer.
• Editors: Pomerance, Murray, 1946-; Palmer, R. Barton, 1946-
• Contents: Introduction / R. Barton Palmer and Murray Pomerance -- 1. Cukor's tragicomedies of marriage : Dinner at Eight, No More Ladies, The Women, and The Marrying Kind / Maureen Turim -- 2. George Cukor's late style : Justine, Travels With My Aunt, and Rich and Famous / James Morrison -- 3. Libel, scandal, and bad big names : It Should Happen to You, Les Girls, Camille, and Romeo and Juliet / Dominic Lennard -- 4. The Cukor "problem" : David Copperfield, Holiday, and The Philadelphia Story / Robert B. Ray -- 5. Modulations of the shot : the quiet film style of George Cukor in What Price Hollywood?, Born Yesterday, Sylvia Scarlett, and My Fair Lady / Lee Carruthers -- 6. Doubling in the cinema of George Cukor : The Royal Family of Broadway, A Bill of Divorcement, A Double Life, and Bhowani Junction / Michael DeAngelis -- 7. George Cukor and the case of an actor's director : Hepburn and/or Tracy in Little Women, The Actress, Keeper of the Flame, Adam's Rib, and Pat and Mike / Charlie Keil -- 8. Cukor maudit : Tarnished Lady, Girls About Town, Our Betters, Susan and God, Desire Me, Edward, My Son, The Model and the Marriage Broker, Let's Make Love, and The Chapman Report / Bill Krohn -- 9. George Cukor's theatrical feminism : Gaslight, Heller in Pink Tights, A Life of Her Own, and A Star is Born / Linda Ruth Williams -- 10. The furthest side of paradise : Two-Faced Woman, A Woman's Face, Hot Spell, Wild is the Wind, and Winged Victory / R. Barton Palmer.
• Publisher Details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Copyright Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (xi, 186 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 791.4/3/0233092; Motion pictures -- Production and direction -- United States; Motion picture producers and directors -- United States; PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference; PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference; Motion picture producers and directors; Motion pictures -- Production and direction; Regissörer; United States; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Criticism and interpretation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780748693573; 0748693572; 9781474403627; 9781474416023; 1474416020
• Related ISBNs: 147440362X; 9780748693566; 0748693564
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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