| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 202 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
1. Europe, 1888 to 1926 -- 2. Hollywood Baptism, 1926 to 1929 -- 3. An Expanding Repertoire, 1930 to 1935 -- 4. Near and at the Summit, 1935 to 1941 -- 5. World War, December 1941 to August 1945 -- 6. The Twilight Warners Years, September 1945 to April 1953 -- 7. Hollywood Nomad, April 1953 to April 1962 -- 8. Assessment |
| Summary |
Michael Curtiz (1888-1962) was without doubt one of the most important directors in film history, yet he has never been granted his deserved recognition and no full-scale work on him has previously been published. The Casablanca Man surveys Curtiz' unequalled mastery over a variety of genres which included biography, comedy, horror, melodrama, musicals, swashbucklers and westerns, and looks at his relationship with the Hollywood studio moguls on the basis of unprecedented archive research at Warner Brothers. Concentrating on Curtiz' best-known films - Casablanca, Angels W |
| Bibliography |
Filmography: pages 174-191 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-173) and indexes |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Curtiz, Michael, 1886-1962 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Curtiz, Michael, 1886-1962 fast |
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Curtiz, Michael. swd |
| Subject |
PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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Biografie
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136158445 |
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1136158448 |
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9781315004037 |
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1315004038 |
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9781136158513 |
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1136158510 |
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9781136158599 |
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1136158596 |
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0415115779 |
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9780415115773 |
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