Robert Wise : shadowlands ; a Wes D. Gehring biography.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gehring, Wes D.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture producers and directors--United States--Biography.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Wise, Robert, 1914-2005.

Wise, Robert.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (351 p.)

Place of Publication:

Indianapolis : Indiana Historical Society Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Born in Winchester, Indiana, Robert Wise spent much of his youth sitting in darkened movie theaters enthralled by the swashbuckling heroics of screen legend Douglas Fairbanks Sr. Through these viewings, Wise developed a passion for film-a passion he followed for the rest of his life, making movies in Hollywood. Nationally known film historian Wes D. Gehring explores Wise's life from his days in the Hoosier State to the beginning of his movie career at RKO studios working as the editor of Orson Welles's classic movie Citizen Kane. Wise is best known for producing and directing two of the most

Contents:

The early years

A career detour: 1930s Hollywood

Orson Welles

Val Lewton and becoming a director

Lewton and Maupassant: a template picture

Wise's first noir classic: Born to kill

Signature cinema: the set-up

Life after RKO: The day the earth stood still and genre diversity

Melodrama in various war settings: Run silent, run deep as metaphor

"portraits" and biographies doubling as melodramas and/or noirs

Wise's brass-ring decade: the 1960s

Filmmaking: "a terribly expensive paint box"

Epilogue.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-322) and filmography.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-87195-347-1

OCLC:

922907176