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

Born in Winchester, Indiana, Robert Wise spent much of his youth sitting in darkened movie theaters enthralled by the swashbuckling heroics of screen legend Douglas Fairbanks Sr. Through these viewings, Wise developed a passion for film-a passion he followed for the rest of his life, making movies i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gehring, Wes D.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Indianapolis : Indiana Historical Society Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Wise, Robert, > 1914-2005.
Motion picture producers and directors > United States > Biography.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780871953476
0871953471
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
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.

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