World and Its Double The Life and Work of Otto Preminger

Name: World and Its Double The Life and Work of Otto Preminger
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"Gives Preminger's work the serious and subtle analysis it deserves."Geoffrey O'Brien, author ofThe Phantom Empire Otto Preminger was one of Hollywood's first truly independent producer/directors. He sought to address the major social, political, and historical questions of his time in films designed to appeal to a wide public. Blazing a trail in the examination of controversial issues such as drug addiction (The Man with the Golden Arm) and homosexuality (Advise and Consent) and in the frank, sophisticated treatment of adult material (Anatomy of a Murder), Preminger in the process broke the censorship of the Hollywood Production Code and the blacklist. He also made some of Hollywood's most…

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List price: $32.00
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 3/3/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.00" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.452
Language: English



Introduction



Breaking the Lightning



It's the Artistic Side That's Questionable



Cues for Passion



Second Apprenticeship



If You Can Find Something Different



The Lubitsch Touch



Obsession



A Bucket of Ashes



The Limbo of Movies



A Search for Lucidity



Hollywood Crossroads



Sick Children



From Self to Self



The Unseeing Witness



Private Arrangements



What the Jury Decides



The Accepted or Common Thing



All Things Are in Process, and Nothing Stays Still



Taboo



A Conservative Liberal



Hooked



Too Much Reason



An Invisible Wall



Plenty of Nothing



Man's Disorganized Soul



Make Them All Brilliant and I Will Direct Unevenly



Gratuitous Acts



A Certain Weakness



Never Give Up



Organized Agitation



How Do You Know I've Never Been Black?



If We Must Be Prisoners



The Love-In



A Very Unpleasant Set



Before the Doors Close on This Whole World



The Human Factor


Afterword


Notes


Films Directed by Otto Preminger


Acknowledgments


Index