The Films of Douglas Sirk: Exquisite Ironies and Magnificent Obsessions

by Tom Ryan

Book Overview

Best known for powerful 1950s melodramas like All That Heaven Allows, Written on the Wind, The Tarnished Angels, and Imitation of Life, Douglas Sirk (1897-1987) brought to all his work a distinctive style that led to his reputation as one of twentieth-century film's great directors. Sirk worked in Europe during the 1930s, mainly for Germany's UFA studios, and then in America in the 1940s and '50s. The Films of Douglas...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496822374
• ISBN13: 9781496822376
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"