Robert Wise
Subtitle: shadowlands
By: Wes D. Gehring
Publisher: Indiana Historical Society Press; Indiana Historical Society; Brand: Indiana Historical Society
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Indianapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9780871952967
Subjects: Biography; Motion picture producers and directors
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and filmography.
Table of contents: title: The early years; title: A career detour: 1930s Hollywood; title: Orson Welles; title: Val Lewton and becoming a director; title: Lewton and Maupassant: a template picture; title: Wise's first noir classic: Born to kill; title: Signature cinema: the set-up; title: Life after RKO: The day the earth stood still and genre diversity; title: Melodrama in various war settings: Run silent, run deep as metaphor; title: "portraits" and biographies doubling as melodramas and/or noirs; title: Wise's brass-ring decade: the 1960s; title: Filmmaking: "a terribly expensive paint box"; title: Epilogue.