- 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
In the Shadows
In the Shadows
Sirk and the Noir Inclination
- Chapter:
- (p.82) Chapter Three In the Shadows
- Source:
- The Films of Douglas Sirk
- Author(s):
Tom Ryan
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
This chapter is a discussion of the Sirk films in which the influence of noir is discernible, less in the plotting than in the way the films have been shot, not only in terms of their use of light and dark but in the visual relationships they establish between individuals or groups and their surroundings.
Keywords: Film noir, Mise-en-scene, Gaslight films, Samuel Fuller, Intractable material
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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