Crooked, But Never Common: The Films of Preston Sturges - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231207294ISBN-10:231207298UPC:9780231207294Book Category:Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Film, Individual DirectorBook Topic:Direction & Production, History & CriticismSize:8.40 x 5.50 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCG76HSTYC
Crooked, But Never Common: The Films of Preston Sturges
In a burst of creativity unmatched in Hollywood history, Preston Sturges directed a string of all-time classic comedies from 1939 through 1948--The Great McGinty, The Lady Eve, Sullivan's Travels, The Palm Beach Story, and The Miracle of Morgan's Creek among them--all from screenplays he alone had written. Cynical and sophisticated, romantic and sexually frank, crazily breakneck and endlessly...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231207294ISBN-10:231207298UPC:9780231207294Book Category:Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Film, Individual DirectorBook Topic:Direction & Production, History & CriticismSize:8.40 x 5.50 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCG76HSTYC
Stuart Klawans was the longtime film critic for the Nation, for which he received a National Magazine Award. He is the author of Film Follies: The Cinema Out of Order (1999) and has contributed to the New York Times, the Times Literary Supplement, Film Comment, and Parnassus: Poetry in Review.
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