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portada Wonderful Heart: The Films of William Wyler
Type
Physical Book
Author
Publisher
Language
English
Pages
256
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
25.1 x 17.5 x 2.0 cm
Weight
0.45 kg.
ISBN13
9780786435739
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Wonderful Heart: The Films of William Wyler

Neil Sinyard (Author) · McFarland & Company · Paperback

Wonderful Heart: The Films of William Wyler - Sinyard, Neil

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Synopsis "Wonderful Heart: The Films of William Wyler"

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.

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