A Wonderful Heart

The Films of William Wyler (livre en anglais)

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de Neil Sinyard

Type

Critiques de films

Sujet

Réalisateur > William Wyler

Mots Clés

William Wyler, réalisateur

Année d'édition

2013

Editeur

McFarland & Co

Langue

anglais

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Format

Broché • 256 pages
18 x 25,5 cm

ISBN

978-0-7864-3573-9

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Description de l'ouvrage :
Revered by his cinematic peers, William Wyler (1902–1981) was one of the most honored and successful directors of Hollywood’s Golden Age, with such classics as Dead End, Wuthering Heights, The Little Foxes, Roman Holiday and Ben-Hur. He won three directing Oscars and elicited over a dozen Oscar-winning performances from his actors. Such exacting performers as Bette Davis, Laurence Olivier and Charlton Heston counted him the best director they had worked with. Yet during the era of the “auteur” theory his films fell out of fashion, lacking, it was said, a distinctive stylistic and thematic signature.

This new critical study of Wyler’s work, the first in more than thirty years, challenges the notion of Wyler’s impersonality and offers a comprehensive reappraisal of his work, particularly of the underrated postwar films. It also provides a rebuttal of the auteurist criticism whose rigid categorization of directors cannot adequately encompass the range of someone like Wyler, who put substance above style and had a breadth of human understanding that was not reducible to a cluster of characteristic themes. Supported by archival research in Los Angeles, the book traces the important milestones in Wyler’s career, the context of his films, the importance of legendary producer Sam Goldwyn, his distinguished war record and his principled opposition to blacklisting during the McCarthy era.

À propos de l'auteur :
Neil Sinyard is an emeritus professor of film studies at the University of Hull in the United Kingdom. He is the author of 25 books on film, including studies of directors such as William Wyler, Fred Zinnemann, Billy Wilder, Alfred Hitchcock and Steven Spielberg.

Revue de Presse :
"a masterfully written study of Wyler…recommended"—Choice.

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