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Gone with the winds that never were: The David O. Selznick archive and unmade historical cinema

David Eldridge

David Eldridge is a senior lecturer in American Studies at the University of Hull, UK. He is the author of Hollywood’s History Films (2008) and is currently working on a monograph concerning the impact that censorship has had on the American film industry’s representations of the past. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Shadow Cinema : The Historical and Production Contexts of Unmade Films

Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

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...In the fall of 1935, David O. Selznick left Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) to launch his own independent production company, Selznick International Pictures (SIP). Determined to ‘compete with the best’, his blueprint was to release just...

Since You Went Away: Masculinity and Change after World War II

Stella Bruzzi

Stella Bruzzi is Professor in the Department of English at University College London, UK. She is the author of Bringing Up Daddy: Fatherhood and Masculinity in Post-war Hollywood (BFI 2005) and New Documentary: A Critical Introduction (Second edition, 2006). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Bringing Up Daddy : Fatherhood and Masculinity in Post-War Hollywood

British Film Institute, 2005

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...Hollywood’s handling of World War II constructed a particular relationship between combat, masculinity and the role of the father. Norman Mailer remarked, ‘nobody was born a man; you earned manhood provided you were good enough, bold...

Duel in the Sun

Edward Buscombe

Edward Buscombe is the editor of The BFI Companion to Western and has written on Stagecoach, The Searchers and The Unforgiven in the BFI Film Classics series. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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100 Westerns : BFI Screen Guides

British Film Institute, 2006

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...Like Pursued (1947), another of Niven Busch’s Western family melodramas, the heroine of Duel in the Sun is torn between two brothers, one offering a steady but boring respectability, the other danger and romance. Duel in the Sun has...

From Gadgeteers to Sound Experts: Defining and Recognising Sound Labour and Expertise

Helen Hanson

Helen Hanson is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Exeter, UK. Her research focuses on film style, histories of American cinema and the film industry, feminism and popular culture. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Hollywood Soundscapes : Film Sound Style, Craft and Production in the Classical Era

British Film Institute, 2017

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...The dazzling spotlight which Hollywood turns upon its Personalities throws into shadow the thousands who work in the movie studios – technicians and craftsmen, musicians and sound engineers, painters, carpenters, laboratory workers. These,...

The 1940s

De Toth on De Toth : Putting the Drama in front of the Camera

Faber & Faber, 2010

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...Andre followed None Shall Escape with Dark Waters (1944), which may well be considered the first of his film noir titles. A melodrama with strong psychological undertones, the film relies heavily on atmosphere and on the performances which...

Developing the Film

Raymond Durgnat

Raymond Durgnat (1932–2002) was the author of many groundbreaking books about the cinema, among them Films and Feelings (1967), Sexual Alienation in the Cinema (1972), The Strange Case of Alfred Hitchcock and Jean Renoir (both 1974), a study of WR: Mysteries of the Organism (1999) in the BFI Film Classics series, and ‘A Mirror for England’ (2010) and A Long Hard Look at Psycho (2011) both republished in the BFI Silver series. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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A Long Hard Look at ‘Psycho’

British Film Institute, 2010

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...A Business Proposition Psycho reflects Hitchcock’s dual career, in feature films, and in television (a chart-topping series of thrillers, Alfred Hitchcock Presents [1955–65]). As television took ‘the family audience’, to which ‘Old...

Thunder and Lightning: Gone with the Wind (1939) and the Logic of Synchronisation

Rick Altman

Rick Altman is a professor of Cinema and Comparative Literature in the Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature, University of Iowa, USA. His many books include ‘Film/Genre’ (BFI 1999) and ‘Silent Film Sound’ (2007). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Film Moments : Criticism, History, Theory

British Film Institute, 2003

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...With Atlanta in flames, Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) piles Scarlett O’Hara (Vivien Leigh), Prissy (Butterfly McQueen), Melanie Hamilton Wilkes (Olivia de Havilland) and her newborn baby into a horsecart. Fighting off renegades, he skirts...

King Kong Capitalism

Julian Murphet

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Animal Life and the Moving Image

British Film Institute, 2015

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...I The animal moves:‘All animals move alike, four-footed and many-footed; in other words, they all move cross-corner-wise.’ See Aristotle, The History of Animals, Part 5, at http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/history_anim.1.i.html. it is,...

Hitchcock at the Margins of Noir

James Naremore

James Naremore is Emeritus Chancellors’ Professor at Indiana University. He is the author of a number of books, including Acting in the Cinema (1988), The Films of Vincente Minnelli (1993), More than Night: Film Noir in its Contexts (1998; 2008) and On Kubrick (2007). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Alfred Hitchcock : Centenary Essays

British Film Institute, 1999

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...The discourse on film noir belongs largely to ‘postmodernist’ culture, but it seems preoccupied with ‘modernist’ values, particularly in a series of Hollywood thrillers or bloody melodramas from the 1940s and 1950s. The pictures it names...

The Searchers

Edward Buscombe

Edward Buscombe is the editor of The BFI Companion to Western and has written on Stagecoach, The Searchers and The Unforgiven in the BFI Film Classics series. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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British Film Institute, 2000

Focused Study

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...John Ford’s masterpiece The Searchers (1956) was rated fifth greatest film of all time in Sight and Sound’s most recent poll of critics. Its influence on many of America’s most distinguished contemporary filmmakers, among them Martin...