The Films of Vincente Minnelli examines the career of MGM's leading director of musicals, melodramas, and comedies in the 1940s and 1950s. Widely admired for his flamboyant sense of color and camera movement, Minnelli played a crucial role in maintaining the studio's reputation as the "home of the stars." Describing the director's contributions to some of the most celebrated works of Hollywood's golden era, this volume also includes a close analysis of five important films that represent the full range of Minnelli's career: Cabin in the Sky, Meet Me in St. Louis, Father of the Bride, The Bad and the Beautiful, and Lust for Life. These lively readings provide commentary on problems of genre, directorial style, cultural politics, and the connection between aestheticism and mass culture during the first half of the twentieth century.
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"Naremore's feeling for ideological nuance becomes translated into a textual alertness and a sense of detail rarely encountered in academic film study. One emerges from this book with the same sense of renewal one would get from seeing a Minnelli film in a restored print." Cineaste
"...surprisingly informative and thought-provoking. As the author points out in his introduction, he has tried not only to discuss Minnelli's work but also provide 'insights into the romantic imagination, American show business, and commodity culture in general.' All this he has done--and done it well." Anthony Slide, Classic Images
"...surprisingly informative and thought-provoking. As the author points out in his introduction, he has tried not only to discuss Minnelli's work but also provide 'insights into the romantic imagination, American show business, and commodity culture in general.' All this he has done--and done it well." Anthony Slide, Classic Images
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In addition to describing the director's contributions to some of the most celebrated works of Hollywood's golden era, this volume includes a close analysis of: Cabin in the Sky, Meet me in St. Louis, Father of the Bride, The Bad and the Beautiful, and Lust for Life.
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On the facing page is a publicity photograph of Minnelli, circa 1934, in his office at the newly constructed Radio City Music Hall, where he had recently become a designer of "presentation shows." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, Father of the Bride, Kirk Douglas, Jonathan Shields, Judy Garland, Lana Turner, Georgia Lorrison, Spencer Tracy, Lena Horne, Ethel Waters, Fred Amiel, Stephen Harvey, The Band Wagon, The Clock, The Pirate, Elizabeth Taylor, John Houseman, Arthur Freed, Duke Ellington, Long Trailer, Richard Dyer, Sally Benson, African Americans, Another Town, Dick Powell New!
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On the facing page is a publicity photograph of Minnelli, circa 1934, in his office at the newly constructed Radio City Music Hall, where he had recently become a designer of "presentation shows." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
snow people, art direction Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Father of the Bride, Kirk Douglas, Jonathan Shields, Judy Garland, Lana Turner, Georgia Lorrison, Spencer Tracy, Lena Horne, Ethel Waters, Fred Amiel, Stephen Harvey, The Band Wagon, The Clock, The Pirate, Elizabeth Taylor, John Houseman, Arthur Freed, Duke Ellington, Long Trailer, Richard Dyer, Sally Benson, African Americans, Another Town, Dick Powell New!
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- The Bad and the Beautiful by Vincente Minnelli on 31 pages
- Directed by Vincente Minnelli by Stephen Harvey on 9 pages
- The American Film Musical by Rick R. Altman on 7 pages
- Lust for Life by Irving Stone on 6 pages
- Modernity and Mass Culture by James Naremore on 5 pages
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- Manly Arts: Masculinity and Nation in Early American Cinema by David A. Gerstner on 4 pages
- Cinderella Dreams: The Allure of the Lavish Wedding (Life Passages) by Cele C. Otnes in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull (Cambridge Film Handbooks) by Kevin J. Hayes on page 133, and page 134
- Look, a Negro!: Philosophical Essays on Race, Culture, and Politics by Robert Gooding-Williams in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Death of Classical Cinema: Hitchcock, Lang, Minnelli (Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema) by Joe Mcelhaney on page 145, and Back Matter
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