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• Analyzing Stylistic Patterning in Film to Establish the Cinematographer as a Coauthor: A Case Study of Gregg Toland

  Author:Philip CowanFrom:Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind (Vol. 11, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Summer 20178,589 words Case study 1270LCan the authorial contribution of the individual cinematographer to classical, narrative-based film be identified and attributed? This article addresses this specific question, but the specific case of the...

• Foundational fiction in William Wyler's Dead End

  Author:Terence HoagwoodFrom:Literature-Film Quarterly (Vol. 41, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 20134,375 words Article 1250LDeservedly influential studies of film adaptation of literary works emphasize the fictitiousness of the concept of fidelity.' From this point of view, the illusion of adaptation is a topic and theme of many films of the...

• "Postmodern mirrors"

  Author:Terence HoagwoodFrom:Literature-Film Quarterly (Vol. 34, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Oct. 20064,126 words Critical essay 1630LMetaphors of replication characterize William Wyler's adaptational films. The reflexive metaphor, in Glamour (1934), for instance, is laden with social and political meanings. Glamour is among the films of the classical...

• Hollywood and the income tax, 1929-1955

  Author:Eric HoytFrom:Film History (Vol. 22, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 201010,948 words Report 1560LThis article argues that a dynamic relationship existed during the 1929-1955 period between the Hollywood film industry and the United States income tax system. The relationship functioned on three levels. First, steep...

• "These Three": the influence of William Wyler and Gregg Toland on Lillian Hellman

  From:Literature-Film Quarterly (Vol. 37, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  July 20093,434 words Critical essay 1280L"Playwrights who go to Hollywood for any length of time seldom come back without a fatal streptococcus septicus" said George Jean Nathan in a 1937 article in Scribner's Magazine. "The potential of mauve motor cars,...

• A Schoolhouse of Their Own: Economic Erotics in The Children's Hour.

  Author:Margaret SpeerFrom:Texas Studies in Literature and Language (Vol. 63, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring 202111,284 words Critical essay 1290LWilliam Wyler's The Children's Hour and The Children's Hour papers in Wyler's archive suggest that lesbianism should be understood as the material conditions that allow women to build lives together without men, whether...

• Agnieszka Holland vs William Wyler: on two adaptations of Henry James's Washington Square

  Author:Slawomir BobowskiFrom:Post Script (Vol. 23, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Summer 20047,332 words Article Since the outset of her film career Agnieszka Holland has shown an inclination to concentrate on psychological and sociological issues related to gender. Prior to emigration from Poland in 1981, she made two movies...

• B-17 Flying Legend

  Author:Dwain ThomasFrom:School Library Journal (Vol. 50, Issue 8)

  Aug. 2004245 words Brief article, Video... B-17 Flying Legend. DVD. color & b&w. 3:31 hrs. Prod. by Fortress Films. Dist. by Janson Media. 2002, 2004 release. ISBN 1-56839-138-2. $24.95. Gr 7 Up--As we prepare to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the close...