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Author Cunningham, Frank R., 1937-

Title Sidney Lumet : film and literary vision / Frank R. Cunningham
Edition 2nd ed
Published Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 316 pages) : illustrations
Contents Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- The Films of Sidney Lumet -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. A Cinema of Conscience -- Q & A: Heart of Darkness -- Power: Packaging the System -- 2. The Loner and the Struggle for Moral Capability -- Equus: Martin Dysart and the Death of the Gods -- The Deadly Affair: Varieties of Betrayal -- The Fugitive Kind: Orpheus Ascending -- A View from the Bridge: The Consequences of Denial -- Daniel: The Understanding of the Past
3. Woman and the Progress of Self-UnderstandingThe Group: Kay's Fall and the Death of Dreams -- That Kind of Woman: Levels of Insecurity -- Lovin'Molly: Psychological Aspects of the Archetypal Female -- 4. Lumet at Zenith: In the American Film Pantheon -- 12 Angry Men: Toward an Imaginative Use of Reason -- Long Day's Journey into Night: The Flight from Self-Knowledge -- Fail Safe: The Final Game -- The Pawnbroker: The Insistence of Memor -- 5. Comic Misconnections and the Universality of Loss -- The Sea Gull: The Comedy of Compassion
Bye, Bye Braverman: Death and Sympathy6. Major Films from Nonliterary Sources -- The Hill: Ambiguities of Order -- The Offence: The Repression of Disorder -- Serpico: Who Can Trust a Cop Who Don't Take Money? -- Dog Day Afternoon: The Contemporary Urban Absurd -- Network: Crime at the Top -- Prince of the City: Film as Literature -- 7. A Major American Director -- Afterword -- The Appointment: Film Form and the Objectification of Woman -- Running on Empty: Politics and Family -- Murder on the Orient Express: Nostalgia and Enchantment
Just Tell Me What You Want Satire and RomanceThe Verdict: Long Road That Has No Turning -- A Stranger Among Us: Feminism and Spirituality -- Guilty as Sin: Prince of Darkness -- Night Falls on Manhattan: The Coming of Wisdom -- Critical Care: Learning to Love the Dying -- Gloria: If You Love Me -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-305) and index
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Subject Lumet, Sidney, 1924-2011 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Lumet, Sidney, 1924-2011 fast
Lumet, Sidney. swd
Subject BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Entertainment & Performing Arts.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780813158266
0813158265