Author:
Bordwell, David, author.
ImprintChicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Description572 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note:Introduction: the way Hollywood told it -- The frenzy of five fat years -- Interlude: Spring 1940: lessons from our town -- Time and time again -- Interlude: Kitty and Lydia, Julia and Nancy -- Plots: the menu -- Interlude: Schema and revision, between rounds -- Slices, strands, and chunks -- Interlude: Mankiewicz: modularity and polyphony -- What they didn't know was -- Interlude: identity thieves and tangled networks -- Voices out of the dark -- Interlude: Remaking middlebrow modernism -- Into the depths -- Call it psychology -- Interlude: Innovation by misadventure -- From the Naked City to Bedford Falls -- I love a mystery --Interlude: Sturges, or showing the puppet strings -- Artifice in excelsis -- Interlude: Hitchcock and Welles: The lessons of the masters -- Conclusion: the way Hollywood keeps telling it.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
