Movie Love in the Fifties
Movie Love in the Fifties "What I set out to do is to help you see movies better, to experience them more deeply and sharply and richly," says James Harvey. See how 1940s film noir evolves into 1950s…
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Movie Love in the Fifties
"What I set out to do is to help you see movies better, to experience them more deeply and sharply and richly," says James Harvey. See how 1940s film noir evolves into 1950s melodrama; how the femme fatale of the 1940s (think Barbara Stanwyck) becomes blander and blonder (think Doris Day) and then younger and sexier (yes, Marilyn); and how the new boy-men-Clift, Brando, Dean-finally steal the show. And his critical method-reading a movie moment by moment, scene by scene-reveals new layers of meaning in even the most familiar films.
Comprehensive, vivid, and charismatic, Movie Love in the Fifties is a fresh look at the films, directors, and actors of a dynamic decade. Harvey also discusses the directors: Hitchcock, Ophuls, Kazan, Welles. "Whether he's escorting us through Nicholas Ray's Bitter Victory, Douglas Sirk's Imitation of Life, Orson Welles's Magnificent Ambersons, or any one of
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