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Call No: 67(04) BES
Place: New York
Publisher: St. Martin's
PubDate: 1999
PhysDes: 280 p.
Subject: WOMEN IN FILMS; RELIGION AND THE CINEMA; ADAPTATIONS; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SOUND PERIOD; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS; GAZE IN FILMS; FAMILY IN FILMS; WAR FILMS; BOORMAN, JOHN; FRANKENHEIMER, JOHN; SINATRA, FRANK; FORD, JOHN; THOMPSON, KAY; YASUJIRO OZU; MANGOLD, JAMES; RISKIN, ROBERT; SPIELBERG, STEVEN; SCORSESE, MARTIN; SARRIS, ANDREW; MCCAREY, LEO; BOGDANOVICH, PETER; CAPRA, FRANK; VIDAL, GORE; DOVE, BILLIE; GRANT, CARY; BURNETT, CHARLES; HAPPINESS (US, Todd Solondz, 1998); SEARCHERS, THE (US, John Ford, 1956); EVE'S BAYOU (US, Kasi Lemons, 1997); TOUCH OF EVIL (US, Orson Welles, 1958); L.A. CONFIDENTIAL (US, Curtis Hanson, 1997); SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (US, Alexander Mackendrick, 1957); GENERAL, THE (UK, John Boorman, 1998); RONIN (US, John Frankenheimer, 1998); STARDUST MEMORIES (US, Woody Allen, 1980); TROUBLE IN PARADISE (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1932); RED RIVER (US, Howard Hawks, 1948); DETOUR (US, Edgar G. Ulmer, ,1946); WRITTEN ON THE WIND (US, Douglas Sirk, 1956); NOTORIOUS (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1946); BIG SLEEP, THE (US, Howard Hawkes, 1946); LADY EVE, THE (US, Preston Sturges, 1941); M (G, Fritz Lang, 1931); WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE, A (US, John Cassavetes, 1974)
ISBN: 0312244832
ID2: 291

Call No: 735.7 GAR
Author: Garcia, Maria
Edition: 2015
Place: Lanham, Maryland
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
PubDate: 2015
PhysDes: 274 pages ; illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject: PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY, THE (US, Albert Lewin, 1945); SEARCHERS, THE (US, John Ford, 1956); DEER HUNTER, THE (US, Michael Cimino, 1978); SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, THE (US, Jonathan Demme, 1991); BRINGING UP BABY (US, Howard Hawks, 1938); LADY EVE, THE (US, Preston Sturges, 1941); SECRET OF ROAN INISH, THE (US, John Sayles, 1994); NATURAL, THE (US, Barry Levinson, 1984); MONEYBALL (US, Bennet Miller, 2011); FAT GIRL (FR/IT/SP, Catherine Breillat, 2000) SEE A MA SOEUR; BREILLAT, CATHERINE; BRESSON, ROBERT
Summary: Whether embodied in literature, theater, or film, an enduring theme of many artistic works has been the protagonist’s search for identity. Such quests are typically psychological or spiritual journeys and depicted on the screen in a variety of manifestations—endeavors embarked upon to address an emotional trauma or to overcome an obstacle in the hero’s life. Using Jean Cocteau’s La Belle et La Bête as a leitmotif, these pursuits are discussed by author Maria Garcia as encounters with the “Beast.” At the end of their quests, heroes are reborn into their new identities, while the Beast disappears, transforms, or dies. In Cinematic Quests for Identity: The Hero’s Encounter with the Beast, Garcia examines the cinematic conventions of the male and female search for individuation across several genres. After discussing La Belle et La Bête, the author looks at a number of films including three iconic male journeys—The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Searchers, and The Deer Hunter. Additional chapters focus on The Silence of the Lambs, Bringing Up Baby, The Lady Eve, The Secret of Roan Inish, The Natural, and Moneyball. The book concludes with a consideration of the three fairy tale films by Catherine Breillat—Fat Girl, Bluebeard, and The Sleeping Beauty—and the female characters in several Robert Bresson films, including The Trial of Joan of Arc. Providing a unique and original perspective on films throughout the world, this provocative book draws upon Jungian thought, as well as several literary traditions including fairy tales, epic poetry, and Greek and Celtic mythology. Aimed at scholars of film and film theory, Cinematic Quests for Identity will also appeal to movie fans interested in a deeper understanding of films that explore a character’s struggle to live a conscious life. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9781442246973

Author: Rubinstein, E
PhysDes: Article
Subject: LADY EVE, THE (US, Preston Sturges, 1941)

Call No: 792 STU
Author: Sturges, Preston; Henderson, Brian Robert
Source: US
Place: Berkeley, California
Publisher: University of California Press
PubDate: 1985
PhysDes: vii, 848 pages : illustrations, photographs ; 23 cm
Subject: GREAT MCGINTY, THE (US, Preston Sturges, 1940); CHRISTMAS IN JULY (US, Preston Sturges, 1940); LADY EVE, THE (US, Preston Sturges, 1941); SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS (US, Preston Sturges, 1942); HAIL THE CONQUERING HERO (US, Preston Sturges, 1943); STURGES, PRESTON
Summary: "Brian Henderson's introduction provides an overview of Sturges criticism and brief biographical material. Each script is preceded by a prefatory essay discussing its evolution. The insights provided by this volume will be useful to film students and aspiring screenwriters, and fascinating to anyone interested in screen comedy..." -- Publisher description
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN: 0520055640
Contents: Foreword -- Introduction -- The great McGinty -- Christmas in July -- The Lady Eve -- Sullivan's travels -- Hail the conquering hero

Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: LADY EVE, THE (US, Preston Sturges, 1941)

Call No: 732(73) HAR
Author: Harvey, James, 1929
Edition: 1st ed
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Knopf
PubDate: 1987
PhysDes: xii, 716 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Subject: ACTORS; COMEDIES; DIRECTORS; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1930's; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1940's; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; ROMANTIC COMEDY; ROMANTIC FILMS. USA; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS; STAR SYSTEM; ARTHUR, JEAN; ASTAIRE, FRED; BRACKEN, EDDIE; CAGNEY, JAMES; CAPRA, FRANK; COLBERT, CLAUDETTE; COOPER, GARY; DUNNE, IRENE; GABLE, CLARK; GRANT, CARY; HARLOW, JEAN; HAWKS, HOWARD; LA CAVA, GREGORY; Lombard, Carole; LOY, MYRNA; LUBITSCH, ERNST; MCCAREY, LEO; MCCREA, JOEL; POWELL, WILLIAM; ROGERS, GINGER; Stanwyck, Barbara; STEVENS, GEORGE; STURGES, PRESTON; AWFUL TRUTH, THE (US, Leo McCarey, 1937); BRINGING UP BABY (US, Howard Hawks, 1938); [FIFTH] 5TH AVENUE GIRL (US, Gregory La Cava, 1939); HIS GIRL FRIDAY (US, Howard Hawks, 1940); IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (US, Frank Capra, 1934); LADY EVE, THE (US, Preston Sturges, 1941); LOVE PARADE, THE (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1929); NINOTCHKA (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1939); PALM BEACH STORY, THE (US, Preston Sturgess, 1942); SHOP AROUND THE CORNER, THE (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1940); TROUBLE IN PARADISE (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1932); UNFAITHFULLY YOURS (US, Preston Sturges, 1948)
Summary: "Reading ROMANTIC COMEDY is like going to the movies. It recreates for us movies we've come to love: movies the way they were when, in 1934, four in particular - IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT, TWENTIETH CENTURE, THE THIN MAN, and THE GAY DIVORCEE - heralded the arrival of the golden age of Hollywood romantic ("screwball") comedy. Over the next ten years, some of Hollywood's brightest directors and stars turned out some of America's most enduring and beloved films. The screwballs - slangy, irreverent, playful, skeptical, and "powerfully, glamorously in love with love" - constitute a genre of American film unique in its combination of the innocent and the worldly, of swank and slapstick. Now critic James Harvey - writing with brilliance and humor - gives us the first truly comprehensive book about these movies and the people who made them." [Taken from book jacket]
Notes: Includes index
ISBN: 0394503392
LON: 5273661

Call No: 451-025 ROW
Author: Rowe, Kathleen, 1947
Edition: 1st ed
Place: Austin, Tex.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
PubDate: 1995
PhysDes: x, 272 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Series: Texas film studies series
Subject: COMEDIENNES; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; COMEDIES; TRANSVESTISM; MELODRAMA; SITUATION COMEDY; CARNIVAL AND THE CINEMA; HEPBURN, KATHARINE; ARNOLD, ROSEANNE; MISS PIGGY; WEST, MAE; STILTE ROND CHRISTINE M., DE (NE, Marleen Gorris, 1982); ROSEANNE [TV] (US, 1988- ); SOME LIKE IT HOT (US, Billy Wilder, 1959); BRINGING UP BABY (US, Howard Hawks, 1938); BALL OF FIRE (US, Howard Hawks, 1942); BORN YESTERDAY (US, George Cukor, 1950); LADY EVE, THE (US, Preston Sturges, 1941); MOONSTRUCK (US, Norman Jewison, 1987); PRETTY WOMAN (US, Garry Marshall, 1990); SHE DONE HIM WRONG (US, Lowell Sherman, 1933); IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (US, Frank Capra, 1934); SYLVIA SCARLETT (US, George Cukor, 1935); GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (US, Howard Hawks, 1953)
Summary: Unruly women have been making a spectacle of themselves in film and on television from Mae West to Roseanne Arnold. In this groundbreaking work, Kathleen Rowe explores how the unruly woman - often a voluptuous, noisy, joke-making rebel or "woman on top" - uses humor and excess to undermine patriarchal norms and authority. At the heart of the book are detailed analyses of two highly successful unruly women - the comedian Roseanne Arnold and the Muppet Miss Piggy. Putting these two figures in a deeper cultural perspective, Rowe also examines the evolution of romantic film comedy from the classical Hollywood period to the present, showing how the comedic roles of actresses such as Katharine Hepburn, Barbara Stanwyck, and Marilyn Monroe offered an alternative, empowered image of women that differed sharply from the "suffering heroine" portrayed in classical melodramas; This feminist study of comedy in film and television offers exciting new opportunities for understanding these media. Written with verve and humor, it will be important reading for a wide popular and scholarly audience in mass communications, gender studies, and popular culture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-260) and index
ISBN: 0292790724; 0292770693 (pbk.)
LON: 94013656; 10900401

Author: Nielsen, Ray
PhysDes: Article
Subject: LADY EVE, THE (US, Preston Sturges, 1941)
Summary: Interview; Ill