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OverviewGeorge Cukor is one of the studio era’s most famous and admired directors, with many of the American cinema’s most beloved classics to his credit, including The Women, Gaslight, Adam’s Rib, A Star is Born, and My Fair Lady to his credit. Not himself a scriptwriter, he was particularly adept at choosing which properties to adapt and then managing the adaptation process with verve and effectiveness. What makes for a good adapter, for a talented master of ceremonies who knows where to put everything and everybody (including the camera)? Who knows how to make a property his own even while enhancing the value it has as belonging to someone else? The essays in this volume provide a series of complementary answers to those questions. Though many of his films are celebrated, Cukor has hitherto not received appropriate critical attention. Cukor’s interest in the various forms of indoor cinema lacked the generic focus of Ford’s westerns and Hitchcock’s thrillers. His style was theatricality writ large, a successful transference to the screen of what he had learned from his successful Broadway career, including the outsized, often flamboyant handling of emotionality. Yet Cukor was also a man of the cinema, fascinated by the ever-developing potentials of his adopted medium, as shown by the more than fifty films he directed in a career that endured from the early sound era into the 1970s. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Murray Pomerance , R. Barton PalmerPublisher: Edinburgh University Press Imprint: Edinburgh University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.480kg ISBN: 9780748693566ISBN 10: 0748693564 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 31 July 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews"An MGM-style all-star cast of critics provide innumerable fresh insights into Cukor's rich and surprisingly varied career, his working methods and his signature subjects. The self-effacing Cukor believed in not calling attention to his craft, but he would have appreciated the sophistication and nuance with which these scholars illuminate his achievements.Professor Matthew Bernstein, Emory College of Arts and Sciences-- ""Matthew H. Bernstein, Emory University""" Author InformationMurray Pomerance is Canadian film scholar, author, and professor teaching in the Department of Sociology at Ryerson University. R. Barton Palmer is Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature at Clemson University, where he directs the film studies program. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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