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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Miller, Gabriel (1948-....)
Titre(s) : William Wyler [Texte imprimé] : the life and films of Hollywood's most celebrated director / Gabriel Miller
Publication : Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, © 2013
Description matérielle : 483 pages, [24] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection : Screen classics
Lien à la collection : Screen classics
Comprend : Discovering a vocation and a style: The Shakedown (1929), The Love Trap (1929), Hell's
Heroes (1930), A House Divided (1931) ; Coming into his own: Counsellor-at-Law
(1933) ; First-class pictures: These Three (1936) ; The Wyler touch: Dodsworth (1936)
; A concoction: Come and Get It (1936) ; The street where they live: Dead End (1937)
; Gone with the plague: Jezebel (1938) ; Home on the moors and the range: Wuthering
Heights (1939), The Westerner (1940), The Letter (1940) ; Bette Davis and the South
redux: The Little Foxes (1941) ; War films: Mrs. Miniver (1942), Memphis Belle (1944),
Thunderbolt (1945) ; The way home: The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) ; The American
scene I: The Heiress (1949) ; The American scene II: Carrie (1952) ; The House Un-American
Activities Committee: Detective Story (1951), Roman Holiday (1953), The Desperate
Hours (1955), The Children's Hour (1961) ; The pacifist dilemma: Friendly Persuasion
(1956), The Big Country (1958), Ben-Hur (1959) ; Final projects: The Collector (1965),
How to Steal a Million (1966), Funny Girl (1968), The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970)
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-459) and index
During his forty-five-year career, William Wyler (1902--1981) pushed the boundaries
of filmmaking with his gripping storylines and innovative depth-of-field cinematography.
With a body of work that includes such memorable classics as Jezebel (1938), Mrs.
Miniver (1942), Ben-Hur (1959), and Funny Girl (1968), Wyler is the most nominated
director in the history of the Academy Awards and bears the distinction of having
won an Oscar for Best Director on three occasions. Both Bette Davis and Lillian Hellman
considered him America's finest director, and Sir Laurence Olivier said he learned
more about film acting from Wyler than from anyone else. In William Wyler, Gabriel
Miller explores the career of one of Hollywood's most unique and influential directors,
examining the evolution of his cinematic style. Wyler's films feature nuanced shots
and multifaceted narratives that reflect his preoccupation with realism and story
construction. The director's later works were deeply influenced by his time in the
army air force during World War II, and the disconnect between the idealized version
of the postwar experience and reality became a central theme of Wyler's masterpiece,
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946). None of Wyler's contemporaries approached his
scope: he made successful and seminal films
Sujet(s) : Wyler, William (1902-1981) -- Critique et interprétation
Indice(s) Dewey :
791.430 233092 (23e éd.) = Cinéma - Réalisation - Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780813142098 (hardcover) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0813142091 (hardcover) (alk. paper).
- ISBN 9780813142104 (erroné) (epub). - ISBN 9780813142111 (erroné) (pdf). - ISBN
0813142113 (pdf). - ISBN 9780813142111 (pdf)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb44309168m
Notice n° :
FRBNF44309168
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