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But if this is not precisely a 'definitive' study, that is to Ryan's credit: his aim, which he accomplishes, is to expand our sense of Sirk, not to impose conclusions that would block further lines of inquiry.--Jake Wilson ""The Age"" Tom Ryan's superb book is the definitive reference work on Douglas Sirk. This beautifully written, exhaustively researched study covers not only every Sirk film, but also their source materials, as well as other movies to which they can be profitably compared. For the first time, Sirk truly emerges in all his coherence and complexity as one of cinema's greatest artists.--Adrian Martin, film critic The Films of Douglas Sirk: Exquisite Ironies and Magnificent Obsessions provides not only a comprehensive insight into Sirk's entire filmmaking career, Ryan's scholarship also fuels a desire to seek out the films we might not have seen and to share his passion for Sirk's cinema.--Anna Dzenis ""Screening The Past"" A labor of decades of love, deep respect, and extensive original research, Tom Ryan's The Films of Douglas Sirk gives us the definitive account of the personality and work of this much-admired yet self-effacing director who--coming from another culture--invented on screen an America we can still open our hearts to. That there is more to discover in and beyond the melodramas is what secures Ryan's book its special place in Sirk literature.--Thomas Elsaesser, film historian

But if this is not precisely a 'definitive' study, that is to Ryan's credit: his aim, which he accomplishes, is to expand our sense of Sirk, not to impose conclusions that would block further lines of inquiry.--Jake Wilson The Age

But if this is not precisely a 'definitive' study, that is to Ryan's credit: his aim, which he accomplishes, is to expand our sense of Sirk, not to impose conclusions that would block further lines of inquiry.--Jake Wilson The Age Tom Ryan's superb book is the definitive reference work on Douglas Sirk. This beautifully written, exhaustively researched study covers not only every Sirk film, but also their source materials, as well as other movies to which they can be profitably compared. For the first time, Sirk truly emerges in all his coherence and complexity as one of cinema's greatest artists.--Adrian Martin, film critic The Films of Douglas Sirk: Exquisite Ironies and Magnificent Obsessions provides not only a comprehensive insight into Sirk's entire filmmaking career, Ryan's scholarship also fuels a desire to seek out the films we might not have seen and to share his passion for Sirk's cinema.--Anna Dzenis Screening The Past A labor of decades of love, deep respect, and extensive original research, Tom Ryan's The Films of Douglas Sirk gives us the definitive account of the personality and work of this much-admired yet self-effacing director who--coming from another culture--invented on screen an America we can still open our hearts to. That there is more to discover in and beyond the melodramas is what secures Ryan's book its special place in Sirk literature.--Thomas Elsaesser, film historian

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Tom Ryan was the film critic for the Sunday Age and has been a regular contributor to the arts pages of the Age and the Australian for three decades in addition to publishing in Lumiere, Cinema Papers, Movie, Positif, Film Comment, and Senses of Cinema. His previous books are Baz Luhrmann: Interviews and Fred Schepisi: Interviews, both published by University Press of Mississippi.

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