- Title Pages
- Frontispiece
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter One Detlef Sierck in Europe
- Chapter Two American Beginnings
- Postscript
- Chapter Three In the Shadows
- Postscript
- Chapter Four The Uncomfortable Comedies
- Chapter Five Sirk and God
- Chapter Six Pastoral Yearnings
- Chapter Seven Hollywood, Rock Hudson, and the Idea of the Hero
- Chapter Eight Sirk, the Family Melodrama, and the Production Code
- Postscript
- Chapter Nine Sirk and John M. Stahl
- Chapter Ten Out of the Past
- Chapter Eleven Into the Future
- Filmography
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Introduction
Introduction
- Chapter:
- (p.3) Introduction
- Source:
- The Films of Douglas Sirk
- Author(s):
Tom Ryan
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
An overview of Sirk’s methods and concerns and of the critical response to his work between the 1960s and the present day. Also includes details of his personal life in Germany and America and an account of my meetings with him.
Keywords: Narrative, mise-en-scene and happy endings, UFA and Hollywood, Subversive, Discovering Sirk, “backlash discourse”
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- Title Pages
- Frontispiece
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter One Detlef Sierck in Europe
- Chapter Two American Beginnings
- Postscript
- Chapter Three In the Shadows
- Postscript
- Chapter Four The Uncomfortable Comedies
- Chapter Five Sirk and God
- Chapter Six Pastoral Yearnings
- Chapter Seven Hollywood, Rock Hudson, and the Idea of the Hero
- Chapter Eight Sirk, the Family Melodrama, and the Production Code
- Postscript
- Chapter Nine Sirk and John M. Stahl
- Chapter Ten Out of the Past
- Chapter Eleven Into the Future
- Filmography
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index