| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
ReFocus. The American directors series |
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ReFocus, the American directors series.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Who's kidding? : approaching Elaine May / Alexandra Heller-Nicholas -- |
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Part 1: Beginnings: Teenagers on stage : the comedy of Elaine May and Mike Nichols / Mark Freeman -- |
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Part 2: Critically Situating Elaine May: Hollywood can't wait : Elaine May and the delusions of 1970s American cinema / Maya Montañez Smukluer -- Dangeros business : Elaine May as existentional improviser / Jake Wilson -- |
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Part 3: Elaine May's Films as Director: Kneeling on glass : Elaine May's A new leave (1971) as screwball black comedy / Samm Deighan -- "Don't put a Milky Way in someone's mouth when they don't want it" : a contemporary feminist rereading of Elaine May's The heartbreak kid (1972) / Clem Bastow -- Mikey and Nicky (1976) : Elaine May and the Cassavetes connection / Jeremy Carr -- Cartographies of catastrophe : Elaine May's Ishtar (1987) / Dean Brandum -- |
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Part 4: Collaborations/Revelations: In/Significant gestures : Elaine May, screen performance, and embodied collaboration / Alexandra Heller-Nicholas -- Otto É. May(zo) : Elaine May's screenplay of Otto Preminger's Such good friends (1971) as affirmation that hell is other people / Paul Jeffery -- Spectral Elaine May : the later Mike Nichols collaborations and the myth of the recluse / Tim O'Farrell -- |
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Conclusion: When in doubt, seduce : an interview with screenwriter Alice Hagan / Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Dean Brandum |
| Summary |
This collection focuses both on the films Elaine May has directed, and also emphasises her work with other high profile collaborators such as John Cassavetes, Warren Beatty and Otto Preminger |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-243) and index |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
May, Elaine, 1932- -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
May, Elaine, 1932- fast |
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Motion picture producers and directors -- United States.
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Women motion picture producers and directors -- United States.
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Motion picture producers and directors.
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filmmakers.
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Motion picture producers and directors
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Women motion picture producers and directors
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
May, Elaine, 1932- interviewee.
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Hagan, Allie, interviewer
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Heller-Nicholas, Alexandra, 1974- editor.
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Brandum, Dean, editor
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| ISBN |
9781474440202 |
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1474440207 |
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9781474440219 |
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1474440215 |
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