1991, ISBN: 0813516455

[SC: 40.82], [PU: New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1991], Fischer, Lucy, ed. Imitation of life. Douglas Sirk, director ; Lucy Fischer, editor. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Pr… Mehr…

[SC: 40.82], [PU: New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1991], Fischer, Lucy, ed. Imitation of life. Douglas Sirk, director ; Lucy Fischer, editor. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1991, x, 346pp., PAPERBACK, very good, appears unused, but with small ding to top front corner. Rutgers films in print ; v. 16. - Sirk, Douglas, 1897-1987 - Three-way mirror: Imitation of life / Lucy Fischer -- Douglas Sirk: a biographical sketch -- Excerpts from Imitation of life ; Zora Hurston: a personality sketch / Fannie Hurst -- Two women in particular / Zora Neale Hurston -- Four films of Lana Turner / Richard Dyer -- Performing performing: irony and affect / Charles Affron -- The bad & the beautiful -- Sirkumstantial evidence / James Harvey -- Sirk on Sirk / Jon Halliday. - The films of Douglas Sirk / Fred Camper -- Distanciation and Douglas Sirk ; Towards an analysis of the Sirkian system / Paul Willemen -- Imitation of life / Michael Stern -- Imitation of life (1934 and 1959): style and the domestic melodrama / Jeremy G. Butler -- "What's the matter with Sarah Jane?": daughters and mothers in Douglas Sirk's Imitation of life / Marina Heung -- Imitation(s) of life: the black woman's double determination as troubling "other" / Sandy Flitterman-Lewis. 9780813516455 ISBN 0813516455<

ISBN: 9780813516455

Douglas Sirk (Claus Detler Sierck) was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1900. He made nine films before fleeing Nazi Germany, eventually coming to America. His best-known films, made during t… Mehr…

Douglas Sirk (Claus Detler Sierck) was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1900. He made nine films before fleeing Nazi Germany, eventually coming to America. His best-known films, made during the 1950s--all of them melodramas--were "Magnificent Obsession," "All That Heaven Allows," "The Tarnished Angels," "Written on the Wind," and "Imitation of Life" (made in 1958, released in 1959). Because of the special stamp he put on his melodramas, Sirk's best works transcend the constraints of their genre. In them, he both exemplified and critiqued postwar, conservative, materialistic life and its false value systems. There is much in Sirk, particularly in "Imitation of Life," that is of interest to us today. The time seems to be right for a new look at the film, its reception amidst scandal over the affairs of its star--Lana Turner--the relationships between its mothers and daughters, the tensions between its men and its women, the friendships between its black and white women, and the ambiguous, controversial approach of Sirk to his material. This volume includes the complete continuity script of the film, critical commentary and published reviews, interviews with the director, and a filmography and bibliography. It also includes an excellent introduction by Lucy Fischer. Media > Book, [PU: Rutgers University Press]<