Preston Sturges (eBook)

The Last Years of Hollywood's First Writer-Director

Nick Smedley, Tom Sturges (Autoren)

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2019
Intellect Books (Verlag)
978-1-78938-025-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Few directors of the 1930s and 40s were as distinctive and popular as Preston Sturges, whose whipsmart comedies have entertained audiences for decades. This book offers a new critical appreciation of Sturges' whole oeuvre, incorporating a detailed study of the last ten years of his life from new primary sources. Preston Sturges details the many unfinished projects of Sturges' last decade, including films, plays, TV series and his autobiography. Drawing on diaries, sketchbooks, correspondence, unpublished screenplays and more, Nick Smedley and Tom Sturges present the writer-director's final years in more detail than we've ever seen, showing a master still at work - even if very little of that work ultimately made it to the screen or stage.

Autor

lt;p>Nick Smedley is the author of A Divided World: Hollywood Cinema and Emigre Directors in the Era of Roosevelt and Hitler and The Roots of Modern Hollywood. He taught an MA module in recent Hollywood history at Birkbeck College, London, in 2008. Since then, he has been a freelance lecturer at film societies and cinemas in Chichester, the New Forest, Wimbledon and Central London.

Tom Sturges is the son of Preston Sturges and the author of three books: Parking Lot Rules, Grow The Tree You Got and Every Idea Is a Good Idea, all published with Penguin Random House. He teaches music business at UCLA and is both an artist manager and consultant. He has been widely recognized for mentoring at-risk, inner-city children and is the father of three sons.

Inhalt

Foreword by Peter Bogdanovich

Preface by Nick Smedley 

 

Part I

The Preludes: The Brilliant Career of Preston Sturges, 1940–1949 — A Critical Survey of His Hollywood Films

1. Beginnings

2. The Emergence of a Genius

3. Sturges Triumphant

4. A Sputtering Flame: The Final Hollywood Films

5. Conclusion: The Brilliant Career of Preston Sturges

 

Part II

The Last Years of Preston Sturges, 1949–1959

Chapter 1: A Fallen Giant: Adjusting to the New, 1949–1950

Chapter 2: Back to the Future: Broadway and Paramount, 1951–1952

Chapter 3: Sturges’ Travels: Farewell to America, 1953

Chapter 4: The Millionairess and the Major: Sturges Returns to Paris, 1954

Chapter 5: Americans in Paris: Filming Major Thompson, 1955

Chapter 6: American Gangster: The Trials and Tribulations of Independent Film Production, 1956–1957

Chapter 7: Farcical Manoeuvres, 1957–1958 

Chapter 8: New York, New York: Public Hopes, Private Griefs, 1957

Chapter 9: For Better or For Worse: Marital Tensions, 1957–1958

Chapter 10: Sliding Towards the Brink, January–July 1958

Chapter 11: The Road to Despair, July–December 1958

Chapter 12: The Conquering Hero: Return to New York, January–March 1959

Chapter 13: Triumph over Pain: The Last Happy Months of Preston Sturges, March–August 1959

Chapter 14: The Events Have Led Up to His Death, August 1959 

 

Afterword by P. G. Sturges

Appendix 1: Fabulous Inventions 

Appendix 2: Story Ideas

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.5.2019
• Vorwort: Peter Bogdanovich
• Verlagsort: Bristol
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 180 x 180 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: Black and White • Broadway • Christmas in July • Cinema • Classical Hollywood Cinema • classic Hollywood Cinema • Film production • frank capra • French Cinema • Golden age of Hollywood • Hollywood • Independent Cinema • Independent Film • Independent Film Production • Major Thompson • Metro Goldwyn Mayer • MGM studios • New York • Orson Welles • Paramount • Paramount Studios • Paris • Peter Bogdanovich • Sandy Sturges • Sullivan's Travels • Sullivan’s Travels • The Beautiful Blonde From Bashful Bend • The French, They Are a Funny Race • The Golden Age • The Golden Age of film • The Great McGinty • the lady eve • The Millionairess • The Miracle of Morgan's Creek • The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek • The Palm Beach Story • The Sin of Harold Diddlebock • Twentieth Century Fox • Unfaithfully Yours
• ISBN-10: 1-78938-025-1 / 1789380251
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78938-025-5 / 9781789380255